The Dublin Fringe Festival

Bridge *****

The Back Loft

Niamh Condron and Julyen Hamilton perfectly articulated relationship tensions in Bridge, as she grappled with her own power and he omnisciently stepped around her. Condron's poise and Hamilton's warmth set up a hopeful scenario in the space, but desire turned to distress when she clutched her stomach, as if having been stabbed, then grabbed his head and submerged it in a bucket of water for an alarmingly long time. The following apogee caused tensions to escalate as they threw beautifully pointed words at each other - field, window-cracked, memory, going home - matching this verbal tug-of-war with physical grief.

Both dancers touched at their own essence while trying to get closer in a stirring performance less about a bridge and more about what happens when we finally allow water under it.

• Final performance this evening

CHRISTIE SEAVER

A Distinct Glimpse *****

Project Cube

Take the man from the fringe, but not the fringe from the man and all that. Last year's Spirit of the Fringe award-winning Heart of Darknessmight be just nine days from a glossy opening night at Dublin Theatre Festival, but Gavin Kostick hasn't forgotten the spirit of the fringe.

Gathering together Aedin Cosgrove, Natasha Lohan, Megan Kennedy and guest Paul Burke (artistic heavyweights all), he has used his prize-winning week in the Cube to put together a "dance show".

Gorgeous songs, movement that spills into the audience, and, sorry, but just passable self-taught accordion playing, are glued together with schoolboy stories of ill-fated model rockets. The airfix aesthetic is typified by the two overhead projectors creating a beamed backdrop, with cutesy curtains and live squiggling. A tad over-reliant on Kostick's charisma, the overall package nevertheless has the rough edges, conceptual shrewdness and irreverence that creates fringe gold.

• Run concluded

MICHAEL SEAVER