Pilot is a dense and serious solo performance which toys with fragments of a narrative and invites the audience to play on stage. Leaping between formats and allusions to hip hop, comic-book superheroes and police corruption, this is a whirlwind of ideas and movement that challenges comprehension before resolving into at least a partial explanation. Yet none of the fragments define this production; all are mentioned and left hanging, since the meaning that the protagonist seeks is more concerned with reimagining and reinterpreting events than the things themselves.

Lekan Lawal dazzles with the breadth of his topics and depth of his thought; juxtaposing auditions, graphic novels, superheroes, elements of biography, and comments on racial and self-identity, his performance encourages a free association of ideas, casting off leads and threads in pursuit of a new perspective. Screens, recordings, lighting, even a late burst of contemporary dance all scramble to bind these fragments.

In an early monologue, Lawal talks of the potential irony encoded into any statement, with the constant slipping between stories and concepts insisting on the inscrutability of words. If the claims for Pilot suggest an investigator studying a manuscript, the experience is affective, plunging narrator and audience into a maelstrom that both demands and refuses understanding.

Pilot, Summerhall, until 27 August, 1.20pm.