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Some shows defy description and the Aluminum Show at the Fringe is one.

In some ways, it does exactly what it says in the title - it's a show entirely devoted to aluminium.

The performers wear it, throw it, pass it over the heads of the audience, dance with it, fire it in strips from cannons and, at one stage, devour an audience member with it.

Devised by the Tel Aviv dancer Ilan Azriel, with designs by Yuval Kedem, it's an extraordinary showcase for the normally humble kitchen item but you do wonder how on earth anyone came up with the idea, or how they keep up with the mountains of tin foil they need for each show.

It opens with giant silver serpents which gradually come alive and start to coil their way from the stage into the auditorium, slapping the audience on their heads on the way past.

Then some performers, inside giant sized "slinkys" take to the stage and begin dancing.

The performance itself is funny and stylish - a choir of foil hoses sing a number, a giant robot emerges from the gloom shouting "save me", a smaller one turns cartwheels on the stage.

It's all done with a joie de vivre and endless audience participation - even sitting up the back won't exempt you.

There's some stylish modern dance in there too, from the energetic Israeli cast.

The audience seem to like it, leaving the auditorium strewn with tin foil, and themselves bedecked with ribbons of the stuff.

Where do they put it all? Who knows? Could be the making of another show.