Theatre review: Ben Okri’s The Comic Destiny, Scottish Storytelling Centre (Venue 30A), Edinburgh

THERE are smashing performances from David WW Johnstone, Charlotte Jarvis and Robert Williamson in experimental theatre company Lazzi’s innovative but frequently incomprehensible adaptation of a story from Ben Okri’s Tales of Freedom.

Ben Okri’s The Comic Destiny

Scottish Storytelling Centre (Venue 30a)

Star rating: * *

Three characters offer fragmented insights into broken relationships, minds and an Eden gone rotten, as the boundaries between a rehearsal process and performance are broken down. Relaxed comic banter is juxtaposed with bursts of aggression, creating an arresting but oblique kind of drama that wears thin over 75 minutes.

Both Okri and the beautifully lit production are being deliberately avant-garde, but it’s often difficult to tell what’s happening, where and why.

• Until 26 August. Today 7pm.