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The Subway, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Group: Harland Hamstrings Theatre Group

Dave Clements

'All I want to say is they don't really care about us'. Michael Jackson's indulgent anthem opens the play. This is fitting, for the show is little more than a schoolgirl rant of 'it's not fair'. That's if you forget the clumsy child abuse hook.

On the assumption that Alan Hunter, the 'Fringe veteran' writer and director, is not a veteran of the Zimbabwe variety, he should be beyond this sort of stuff. It is a juvenile play that conflates the perverse with the everyday for dramatic effect.

Bob Dylan's words, 'she tastes just like a woman, breaks like a little girl', are used all too literally.

There is an unexpected twist. But I won't spoil it for those who would still like to see what is an altogether twisted production anyway.

3 August to 17 August.

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