Uzma Hameed's play was inspired by Lorca's Blood Wedding, but this is not easy to deduce. As performed by Big Picture Company, a British-Asian group, and directed by the author, it is an improbable melodrama with none of its source's primitive roots or poetry.

It has just three characters. Nina (Anouska Laskowska) and Irfan (Ben Jones) are bright young lawyers about to marry, and Shazaman (Mido Hamada) is Irfan's cousin who has arrived for the wedding. She has been having frightening dreams, as has Shazaman. It transpires they are reincarnations of tragic ancestors, doomed to follow in their path when they run off on her wedding day.

The story may sound a little like Lorca, but superstition is substituted for passion, and the blood's insistent tyranny is displaced by a dominant predestination. This drops the plot to a much lower plane, losing credibility as it develops. The dialogue does not help redeem the play's other defects, nor do the multimedia elements of film projection and music, which at times overpowers the words.

Dressed in colourful Indian costumes, the actors are personable and committed, leaving a sense that they could do more with better material. They create a fast-flowing succession of scenes, within which they speak and move with an exotic difference that is the production's best feature. It is fair to add it comes with some golden British opinions that I have been unable to share.

Runs until August 4th (01-2312929)