Tinderbox Theatre Company has assembled seven leading Northern playwrights to celebrate, if that's the word, the closing earlier this year of Crumlin Road courthouse and jail. The buildings are due for redevelopment on tourist-attraction lines, and are in just the right state of current dilapidation to host an exploration of their place in Irish history and culture.

The audience's promenade begins in Court No. 2 (by Marie Jones), which features women entrusted with the task of turning the site into a heritage centre, and disagreeing over its future function. Then it's on to a Jury Room (Nicola McCartney), where a cynical man and a young woman debate their duty, and end in severe disagreement. In the Male Toilets (Daragh Carville) a photographer and a publicist engage in satirical and very funny dialogue to do with the loss of Belfast's world image due to the peace process. Court No. 1 (Owen McCafferty) is a Kafkaesque piece with the ghost of a murdered man in a kind of limbo, with his killers still unknown. Some welcome hilarity, though with a penetrating point, is found next in the Judge's Room (Damian Gorman), with his pompous Lordship soliciting support for an opera project - the Ulster War Cycle. And from there it is literally downhill to the cells, where Holding Room (Gary Mitchell) sees a tough young man starting a long sentence.

Main Hall (Martin Lynch) offers a representative finale in which the ghost of a prisoner hanged about 50 years ago tells his story, and berates the audience for belatedly turning up, like a gang of theatre-goers. Where were we when we were needed?

The list of directors and actors is a distinguished one, and the whole an accomplishment of some magnitude albeit, by its nature, an ephemeral one. I'm glad that I saw it.

Runs until November 18th at 8 p.m.; matinees on Saturday, November 11th and Wednesday, November 15th at 2.30 p.m. To book phone 028-9066-5577