Blind Summit, Soho Theatre - review - Comedy - Arts

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In the longest of three sketches we meet a cardboard-faced figure presenting "the last 12 hours of Moses's life ... on a table". Or he would if he was not regularly distracted, by doing sexy gyrations, pretending to be French or making one of his trio of black-clad controllers corpse, which may be a puppetry first. There is existential pathos, as his world literally turns upside down, but it is the humour that hits home.

The spirit of Tommy Cooper endures in the puppet's barked procrastinations.

The other two sections are almost as good. A frenetic visual gag involving framed pictures in which performers and masks blur is expertly executed, while the climax is a filmic story ingeniously told on paper. There is a crash, a chase and an escape. Revealing more would spoil surprises. Leave any cynicism at home and go.

Recommended, no strings attached.

Until January 21 (020 7478 0100, sohotheatre.com)

Blind Summit
Soho Theatre
21 Dean Street
W1D 3NE