Fool For Love
Dynamic Earth *

Sam Shepherd's pressure-cooker of a play about destructive love is set in a single motel room for sound dramatic reasons. David Soul's attempt to open it up into a multi-media extravaganza is ill-advised - in more ways than one. Such were the appalling technical problems at the opening performance that the actors didn't stand a chance. But even on a good night, this would probably be a pop-video version of the play. This is a story about two people - half-brother and half-sister Eddie and May - who love each other so much they want to obliterate each other. It has nothing to do with romantic love and everything to do with the ravenous monster of desire. It is about the myths we make of our own lives in order to survive. Playing old Roberta Flack hits and showing us videos of snowy owls and desert sunsets doesn't begin to get to the heart of the matter.

With the anguished whispers of the technical crew providing an eerie chorus to the on-stage action, the actors more than had their work cut out. In other circumstances, Alexa Hamilton's May and Kristofer Soul's Eddie may indeed be capable of conveying the dangerous energy of caged animals. But the only danger I saw was that they wouldn't reach the end of the performance before the lights blacked out completely.

• Till August 28. Box office: 0131-530 3557.