Agata is only six, but already she is adept at playing the game her parents taught her that involves hiding in the wardrobe when the brown shirts come knocking on the door. Berlin in the late 1930s is not a safe place for Jewish Agata and her teddy bear, so both are put on the Kindertransport that saw more than 9,000 Jewish children transported from Germany to England. And when the air raids start, Agata discovers that the wardrobe is still the safest place to be.
The final part of the trilogy spanning the 20th century, which began with My Long Journey and includes the award-winning Past Half Remembered, NIE's latest piece is about loss - the loss of family, country, identity, name, and, most of all, the loss of a future and a past.
It is a touching little show that is saved from feyness by its inventiveness and the bleakness of an ending that suggests that what is lost stays lost. It begins with music that makes you want to dance and ends in a silence so loud you wish you could turn it down.
While there is plenty that is appealing, this is an uneven show and not always pitched quite right. The acting sometimes drifts dangerously towards caricature, and despite the recurring sound and image of alarm clocks, the show's timescale is confusing.
Niggles aside, this company is full of promise, and while it may have wrapped up the 20th century in this trilogy, it has not yet unwrapped its own potential.
· Until March 18. Box office: 020-7223 2223
