Michael Coveney, The Independent Thu, 2009-04-02 01:00

The device of a travelling freak-show is not just a sweetener, though, but is fully enjoyed for its own sake, as evident in the design, fully maintained in the lighting of Malcolm Rippeth, the atmospheric soundtrack of composer Tom Mills and the succession of theatrical tricks involving disembodied heads, swishing scenic curtains, flickering footlights and copious squirtings and spurtings of various liquids and bodily fluids.