Circuses are strange, disorientating places at the best of times. And that's just from the audiences perspective. Under that big top when the lights go down and the haphazardly applied demonic face-painted grins are removed one wonders what exactly goes on. A child's perspective on the whole scene may be more about the candy floss, smiling animals and all manner of friendly pranks and antics. Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls isn't for children though.

Currently in its second week at the Dublin Fringe Festival, this production by MoVe Trans-Theatre, a French & Irish theatre company, could best be described as a surreal tale centred around the circus, kidnapping, revenge, love and all other manner of strangeness. Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls tells the story of a woman whose juggler husband was killed by an evil ringleader hell-bent on stealing her balloon children to become part of his ailing freak show.

Hypnotised to become a gypsy automat in a carnival, Mad Mabe is discovered years later and her plight and story unfolds. Staged within a contemporary vaudevillian setting, Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls is a 60 minute frisson of freakiness and it's coming to the Firkin Crane for two shows on Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27.

Do not go this outpost of insanity, but if you do beware of four legged helium women, live pet furniture and evil black widow siamese twin sisters. Save yourselves. You will not scream, You will not laugh and contortionists, acrobats and jugglers from France will not be there.

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