Taylor Mac is a performance artist, but he says that's just a fancy way of saying drag queen. He twinkles as brightly as a Christmas tree fairy who has been pulled through a hedge backwards. After having raided the dressing up box.
This is not a man for sensible shoes. What does he do? Not a lot, but he plays the ukulele and sings sad witty ditties about the trials and tribulations of New York life. He muddles through. It may not sound much, but it is always much more than it seems. It is somehow touching and he makes it seem very lonely up there on stage.
There are soliloquies of solitary togetherness, otherwise known as mutual masturbation, litanies of love to past lovers in all their glorious imperfections and odysseys through gay life.
You will discover that Afraids is unsafe sex and that Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, once wrote a lesbian pulp romance. It's a lovely little show built entirely around Mac's persona and the idea that nothing's worth doing unless it makes you nervous.
· Until Aug 28. Box office: 0870-745 3083.
