Though primarily associated with largescale modern musicals, such as Blood Brothers and Evita, Rebecca Storm began her musical career performing the Edith Piaf repertoire, so the present show does not mark a completely new departure for her.

Produced by the Dublin theatre company Vesuvius, The Songs of Edith Piaf Transformed is a remarkable evening's entertainment, combining many of Piaf's most famous songs with various dramatic and poetic interludes (Storm shares the stage with six actors).

Rebecca Storm - accompanied only by piano, bass and violin - proved to be consistently brilliant and captivating. Wisely, she does not attempt to mimic the Piaf style but, instead, makes all the songs her own.

Without any amplification, her powerful voice carried easily across the large hall. She shifted easily from the emotional intensity of a song such as Heaven Have Mercy to the throwaway waltz Padam, Padam.

Director Vanessa Fielding does not employ the dramatic and poetic interludes to tell a chronological story but opts instead for quite a variety of extracts - primarily by Cocteau and Irish playwright Joe O'Byrne, but also incorporating poems by Shakespeare and Maya Angelou.

What links them all together and links them with the songs is the persistent concern with love and relationships.

The dramatic and poetic extracts in the first half were perhaps too diverse and at times seemed strained. However, the second half had a strong focus, blending music and drama brilliantly, and drawing with particular effect on extracts from Cocteau's Le Bel Indifferent.

Runs until Sunday