An Oak Tree, Traverse, Edinburgh

Look deep into his eyes - and surrender

This is a piece about the power of suggestion, control and loss of control, and the form which the show takes teasingly reflects the story told. Crouch is playing a smalltime hypnotist who's mentally struggling after a car accident in which he killed a little girl on her way to a music lesson. The other player is the child's bereaved father who turns up at the hypnotist's show, unrecognised. He volunteers and falls so deeply under the hypnotist's spell that the latter thinks this guy is mucking him around and cruelly humiliates him. Then, when he agonisingly learns his victim's identity, he tries to heal the damage. The end is not without hope.

Some may find Crouch's aesthetic arid and the games with art and life contrived. But I would call this Pirandello for a modern audience and better. It's philosophy in action, playful and seriously thought-provoking. Emotionally, it is deliberately damped-down, but there's a slow burn. That you believe in and feel for the grieving father, while seeing the rehearsal-style workings, seems all the more amazing, touching and perhaps psychologically worrying.

To 28 August, 0131 228 1404