Bucket Club’s calling card production is packed with ingenuity and original moments, but is sometimes let down by a lack of stage experience.

Taking on the mythical tale of the selkie – a seal who washes ashore as a woman – the action is reset into modern-day Norfolk, and the world of drifting university graduate Alan.

Plastic bottles of water provide the set and many of the props, ranging from individual characters to binoculars and Xbox paddles.

And the whole production is soundtracked live by two kagouled musicians on the side of the stage using a Wii controller to create white noise waves, and providing and sampling their own vocal backdrop.

There is also a neat thread of humour running through the production – with the actors occasionally stepping out from the setting to add their own commentary to the action.

Unfortunately the soundscape occasionally overrides the story – proving distracting from the main action.

And while the physicality of the performers is excellent what should be vocal projection sometimes turns into shouting in the audience’s direction.

That said it is a very promising debut from an enthusiastic company clearly willing to take risks and experiment with traditional theatre forms – taking the folk story into new territory.

Three stars