L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq has had a big impact on physical theatre in the UK and for good reason. The actors I've worked with who have trained there are without exception creative, physically adept and very good at collaboration. Hailing from LeCoq, Dancing Brick are at the Edinburgh fringe for a second year bringing a new show that explores the language gap.

Valentina Ceschi and Thomas Eccleshare start the show with an easy, casual informality that establishes an immediate connection with the audience. They are both, charming performers and their rapport on stage feels very genuine. The narrative is simple- an english man and an italian woman waiting for their delayed train spend the night together on the station platform, moving from their initial uncomfortable attempts at conversations to the easy intimacy of the next morning.

This is a poem not an essay and each verse is a set piece that explores the language gap from another angle. She failing to understand his english, he her italian. Buying a train ticket becomes a surreal "teach yourself english" course; dreams of swimming, games of throw and catch; words that become butterflies; the dubbed melodrama in which she mimes his english, he her italian. There is something enchanting about these vignettes and they are executed with confidence, grace and perfect comic timing. When we finally see them talking in animated conversation it is as a dumb show. We can not hear them, they have drawn into their own private world from which we are excluded.

One of the weaknesses I have observed in this kind of devised physical theatre is that the individual set pieces are often more fully realised than the overall flow of the narrative. I felt there were a couple of points that needed more development and attention to pace and a couple of scenes that didn't quite work. The "plugheads" scene for example is hilarious but the joke is over in the first 2 seconds, why play it out? Like wise I liked the lighting effect at the end but wasn't sure whether it had worked properly, whether I had seen what I was supposed to. Finally, the sight lines in this venue are really bad and I couldn't see the first scene at all which is a shame. It sounded funny from the reaction of the front rows.

This show gets 4 stars for its charming, magical quality and for two impeccable performances from Valentina Ceschi and Thomas Eccleshare. A little tidying up of the second half and it would be 5 stars. This is an excellent example of the genre. I highly recommend you go see it.