Do Theatre/Fabrik is a Russian-German company which won an Edinburgh Fringe First in 1999 for its production of Hopeless Games. Mixing dance, theatre and clowning, the hour-long piece, which comes to Dublin as part of the Fringe Festival, revolves around a deserted railway station with the five dancers twirling in perfectly-choreographed gravity defying unison.
They are complemented by film footage of railway lines and moving trains, shot from unexpected angles. Other ingredients are a headless man, black tutu and pointe-shoewearing Russian roulette players and the company's trademark bowler hats, with the piece climaxing in an ecstatic ethnic dance and fireworks. Critics have described it as both shocking and tender, comic but strangely beautiful and a rollercoaster for the senses.