Huxley's Lab

Guided by actors in brightly-coloured boilersuits into glass lifts, along glass-lined corridors, into glass-walled rooms, the audience is inducted into a sterile world of laboratory-grown babies, where sexual exercises are encouraged but individualistic emotions prohibited. Edinburgh University's new Informatics Forum is the perfect setting for this dystopian vision of a eugenic future of bland conformity – the product of the coming together of two Scottish companies. Grid Iron specialises in site-specific theatre, Lung Ha's in providing opportunities for people with learning disabilities to become involved in performance. Inspired by Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World and what they describe as "the medieval theatre tradition of buffon", their hybrid creation explores a society in which genetic programming ensures that "everyone is fit for purpose" and all "Naturals" are eradicated. Happily, they are not: ragged and irregular, they encourage the audience to join their nonconformist dance celebrating the messy diversity of life.