Pan Pan Theatre's latest production is not so much a drama as a metaphor. It is about communication and distortion and seems to be quite precisely about the gulf between the worlds of the deaf and the hearing. Written by Andreas Staudinger, it is played with huge commitment by Charles Kelly and illustrated imaginatively by animations from the Dun Laoghaire Institute for Art, Design and Technology (supervised by Tony Donoghue) and a soundtrack by Andrew Synnott that includes voices which a deaf audience cannot hear, multilingual words which few can understand and highly-amplified music, all directed by Gavin Quinn with remarkable emotional and intellectual clarity.

Mussolini Frog (Charles Kelly) is inarticulate, is angry, and wants control. His paunchy belly requires and gets exercise. His emotions are expressed first in sharp shadowboxing, then in fascist uniform on a table-top with toy soldiers and tanks, then in operatic music, then in a mixture of blunted vocal sounds and more expressive hand-gestures, and finally back to the meaningless ribbit-ribbit of the frog from which it had started.

Aedin Cosgrove's design is apt and functional with costumes by Suzanne Cave ranging from the minimal to the sinister. The show gives in its one-hour span a powerful impression of a world in which both power and communication are awry, even though is does not try to stick to the conventions of either live theatre or a simple narrative. It is adventurous and compact and worth both watching and listening to regardless of the status of one's hearing acuity.

Until November 7th. Booking: Call-save 1850 260 027.