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Unlike most of the theatre shows at this year's Fringe, The Best Thing is a touring production almost at the end of a highly-acclaimed six-month UK run.

In real terms this meant a well-designed stage set, an acutely executed lighting design, an interval (!) and slick performances from the four cast members.

Vamos are "the UK’s leading full mask theatre company", so those four played 16 different characters, a major advantage of mask theatre.

A disadvantage might be the one expression the mask has, however this was not the case in a play full of pathos and humour.

A kitchen sink drama from 1966/7, this was a story of teenage pregnancy (it should be noted that abortion was legalised in England in 1967).

There are moral questions raised by the piece but at its heart is an eclectic soundtrack from that time, which drives the action and helps create texture and tension. Not a word is spoken. The audience knows the story and fills in the emotional subtlety that the masks cannot express.

Things did get predictable towards the end when the drama got serious, but the big wide-eyed masks with their Spike Milligan noses managed to pull the action through to its conclusion.