Lowlife entertains in this Mexican play written by Enrique Gutierrez Ortiz Monasterio and performed in Spanish with subtitles (or rather expletives) by Mark Ravenhill. It is one of those plays in which very little happens and yet there are seismic shifts. A floor gets endlessly washed and two women talk of finding the school fees and their next line of coke. Over their lives loom absent husbands and fathers and the pall of sexual favours in return for money and drugs.
It could be deeply depressing, but there is an energy in both the writing and John Tiffany's production that make listlessness seem interesting. There is also something warm at the heart of this uneasy friendship between two women that is deeply touching. They use each other, they don't even like each other, yet they need each other for survival. Aida Lopez and Gabriela Murray are hot stuff in a little play that lingers.
· Until August 28. Box office: 0131-228 1404.
