Circus Trick Tease @ Udderbelly

The Circus Trick Tease trio have been spotted at various variety show tearing the roof off. At Vive Le Cabaret and Kitty Cointreau's Burlesque Graveyard Shift, they topped the bill, and their old school acrobatics and strong man routines thrill at the point of becoming a spill. Between their glamorous girl and balancing boys, CTT are a testament to the revival of traditional circus skills and their ability to captivate an audience.

Their own show is full of the same tricks, stunningly executed and relentless. Each act is brilliant: apart from a lull when the strong man lifts up four women - impressive, but badly staged - their hour is almost non-stop action. They build each act, somehow finding more and more spectacular finales and balances. They clamber over each other with abandon, reach the skies with towers of bodies, bounce and jive into apparently impossible combinations. When they just hit the skin, they rock it.

Yet their actual theatricality is weak: the story-line, admittedly a prop for the series of tricks, is predictable and drags. Sexual tension between the performers is all very well, but it is obvious from the start what will happen, and it is difficult to know why they bother with the plot.

Circus Trick Tease are the best acrobatics on the Fringe: when they swing, they thrill, and each individual routine is sheer visceral energy. It feels almost trivial to carp at the lack of effective narrative: this three way, however, is best seen as a finale to a mixed bill, when it seems like the greatest show on earth.