A naked man sits in an armchair at the centre of an impressionistic version of a family living-room. There’s a TV set, a lamp and a vintage record player, surrounded by walls with only one door out. As the man breathes deep in the stillness, voices of his homophobic father, his mother, and his therapist pierce the TV static like ghosts in the machine. Film footage of two men wrestling naked (in a field, on a beach, in the sea) beams onto the walls like a reimagining of Ken Russell’s Women In Love.  As we cut between recorded snatches of real-life conversations and the on-screen struggle, it is as if all the everyday agonies swirling around inside this man’s head are being transmitted as a living installation. 

They fuck you up, your mum and dad, for sure, in this intense 40-minute audience with Andreas Constantinou, the Danish theatre artist who tells his story without moving or saying a word. First performed in 2020 by Constantinou for his Himherandit Productions, and now presented in Edinburgh as part of the Danish Showcase, the result is part meditation, part purging, part live art, and part public therapy in a deeply intimate exchange. 

Champions, Pleasance EICC, until 16 August, 8.30pm; main picture: Christoffer Brekne.