Edinburgh Festival: Apparently . . .

How do the members of Jim Rose's gruesome Circus relax? By watching the Tokyo Shock Boys, of course. Last week, four grinned their way through the Boys' acts with comments such as 'I could do that when I was eight' - until Gyuzo went walkabout with his scorpion-on-a- rope, tripping over by Rose's vomit-drinker, Enigma. The arachnid brushed Enigma's tattooed skin, whereupon he promptly leapt out of it.