Teatr Licedei is the St Petersburg clown company founded more than 30 years ago by Slava Poulin. It shows. This unashamed crowd pleaser has its own Slava Snow Show style ending when yards of toilet roll spool into the audience turning us all into over-excited and over-grown Andrex puppies. In fact the finale rather suggests that somebody thought that the 70 minutes that proceed it might not be quite enough to send the audience out into the street onto a high. They may be right.
The Family is about the chaos and calamities of family life. It features an ever-pregnant, harassed mother, an alcoholic father on the verge of abandoning his family and a brood of ragged urchin children who act like domestic terrorists. This is a series of vignettes about family life in which the dots are not quite joined-up.
There are some lovely moments but it often feels like a series of circus acts - family swigging a glass of vodka with no hands; the children playing on a seesaw; a pillow fight, a suit springing a leak - rather than a completely coherent show, and it gets by as much on a mixture of high energy and wistful charm as anything else. But the mixture of the surreal, the monstrous and the cute is very appealing and although the company don't delve too deeply into the nastier side of domestic life, it does give a real sense of the family's big, messy, pumping heart.
· Until August 28. Box office: 0131 226 2428
