One of the show's many highlights comes with Faon Shane's turn on the silk ropes. Her masterly display of strength, subtlety and control has a deeply expressive quality in which measured ascents and moments of exquisite balance are counterpoised with perilous spins and twists as she plunges earthwards.
In a number of the ensemble pieces the acrobatics shaded into contemporary dance - most notably with a sharply choreographed love triangle that had three performers falling all over each other as they dived and tumbled in and out of the tubs.
The finale is a wonderfully lyrical trapeze routine by Francois Gravel in which his extreme athleticism looks effortless due to his graceful fluidity of movement.
Traditional juggling is well served by the languid dexterity of Adem Endris' bouncing ball dance, while Ludmila Nikolaeva brought a light-hearted touch to her spectacular foot juggling that had towels and oversized bathroom objects spinning on the tips of her toes.
In between items there was plenty of light relief provided by Marie-Andree Lemaire's goofy clowning and Patricia Holtzmann's burlesque style opera singing.
THEATRE
What: Soap - The Show.
Where: The Civic.
When: Until Sunday.
