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Featuring a cast of 34, it is a clattering (although not nearly as clattering as Stomp) romp on "instruments" culled from household objects: woks, vacuum cleaners, filing cabinets, bottles, shopping trolleys and all manner of piping. There were no songs as such, no chat and no singing until a choir appeared late on. No matter: unusual sound combined deftly with breathless choreography and, voilà, a surefire hit.

There were flaws and not merely the "look-at-me-I’m-playing-a traffic-cone" smugness. The lighting was hopelessly inadequate. Dressing the troupe like vagrants suggested local rep rather than Mad Max mavericks. The wordless humour was as unfunny as Mr Bean. Some pieces were too long. Percussive dullness is percussive dullness, whether on drums or catering cauldrons.

Yet much of it worked. An expertly executed segment of syncopated water-dispenser throwing was exhilarating and whenever a radiant melody shone through, there was genuine revolutionary magic afoot.

Highlight was a section that saw the whirlies that brightened many a bleak childhood set against a Mission-era Ennio Morricone-esque backdrop played on bellows and staged with the sweeping grandeur of a Leni Riefenstahl set piece.

Until January 11 (0871 663 2500)

Stomp: Lost And Found Orchestra
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
The South Bank Centre,Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX