This is what the fringe should be about: a young company doing a promising and intelligent piece of physical-theatre storytelling with more dash than cash.
It cuts to straight to the quick of this most sinister tale, using just two actors on a bare stage to tell of a man divided and torn between his good and evil nature. What is so good is that the staging - on a bare black box - mirrors or echoes the themes of the novel itself, and the only embellishment comes from some brilliant on-stage music performed by two men dressed as Victorian undertakers. Otherwise, one of the actors plays Jekyll and Hyde and various bits of furniture while the other plays the lawyer attempting to unravel the mystery.
Simple and yet full of panache, stylish and pure, the company has a distinct style, although they need to curb the student tendency to play little knowing jokes with theatrical convention. But it is a gripping and polished two-hander.
· Until Monday. Box office: 0870 701 5105.
