Theatre review: Life Is Too Good To Be True, Underbelly Cowgate (Venue 61), Edinburgh

THIS experimental one-man show by Maastricht collective Het Geluid is an Amsterdam Fringe award-winner.

By MALCOLM JACK

Published 6th Aug 2012, 17:06 BST

Life Is Too Good  To Be True

Underbelly Cowgate (Venue 61)

Rating: **

It abstractly explores different types of lies we wittingly tell or accept – be it a career-hungry journalist’s fabricated stories or the positive mantra of a cancer sufferer – via an incongruous route from shamed American hack Stephen Glass to Lady Gaga.

The Glass-in-group-therapy monologue is absorbing enough. Then he undresses and starts waving a ribbon baton and things begin to get trippy, camp and very vague. Finally being confronted by a man in tights, high-heels and a pink wig singing Bad Romance is unexpected, just not in an especially good way.

• Until 13 August