The Marquez Brothers are two actors who have recently turned to comedy. Their Edinburgh debut occupies the fertile area between sketch show and comic play, with the pair playing all the characters in a series of well-observed scenes about machismo. There's the new-man footballer and his traditionalist, sheepskin-wearing gaffer. There's the cockney hooligan, who demonstrates the body language of thuggery to his naive Spanish cousin. There are two gorm less "best mates" preparing for a night on the town. It emerges that all are bound for the same football-club disco, the pivot of the plot.
It's a novel format, and unfolds with minimal fuss: costumes and set are negligible, and there are videoed inserts of bullfighting and kids at play between each scene. The execution doesn't always match the ambition: some of the dialogue is listless, some familiar, and there aren't many belly laughs. But the Brothers commit to their material, performing it not - as would many comedians - at an ironic distance, but for real. And there are a handful of priceless physical routines, including the would-be raver's effort to dance to a tune whose beat never quite kicks in, and a closing coup de grace in which two characters' less-than-macho profession is drolly revealed.
Until August 27. Box office: 0131-556 6550.
