, Three Weeks Mon, 2008-08-04 01:00

All senses are arrested by this surreal, stylish, site-specific piece about sex-change operations and plastic surgery in Iran. Through the damp gloom of WWII bomb shelters, past jars of pickled onions and abandoned shoes we are beckoned by statuesque performers in to the unruly desires and anxieties surrounding cosmetic surgery and the great gender divide. The audience are divided by gender for parts of the show and each group tellingly begins to wonder what the other experiences. Perplexing, sinister, darkly comic, and with a painterly handling of light, as well as teasing; their big tease, pickled onions and plastic surgery – both in the preservation business. Plastic is a clever human ’installation’, but cosmetic and sex change surgery are confusingly blurred.