Perhaps it's a cultural difference, but Stein seems to have encouraged these two essentially superb naturalistic actors to fall, occasionally, into melodrama Allam's freeze at the door is a case in point He looks like Edmund Kean. When he physically sags with guilt, it is another exaggeratedly pointed "moment" and faintly silly. The unscripted coup de th?re at the end - changing the whole set for a savage car-park brawl, complete with a zooming motor - is shockingly visceral but gimmicky too and rather crass. Still, certainly worth seeing.k.bassett independent.co.ukTo Wednesday, 0131 473 2000. "You can't miss Hunter's place," laughed one of the locals as he waved directions.

"There's a huge cannon in the back garden." He was right. An incomprehensible oversight, depriving the world? No, it would be wrong to rank them with the top American companies. To be honest, from a distance it looked more like a long, thin penis than a cannon. But on top, what looked like a swollen head waiting and ready to explode, was actually a huge, fibre-glass clenched fist packed with a mixture of explosives and human ashes. This, apparently, was what Hunter S Thompson wanted, and this was what Hunter S Thompson was to get. Meanwhile Rothbart prowls like a cross between Dr Caligari and the Phantom of the Opera.Although the Pennsylvania Ballet is 40 years old, it has never appeared overseas.

A decade ago the same happened to Mark Morris, whose Hard Nut, a reinvention of The Nutcracker, was a smash-hit. With this new Swan Lake - well, nearly new, it was premiered in Pennsylvania last year - McMaster was clearly pitching for a repeat. For extra cachet, he invited ace-musicians, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, to play the score. Young and gifted, Wheeldon makes pessimists rejoice that ballet does, after all, have a future. He choreographs all over the place, but most of his pieces belong to the one-act, plotless genre. He still, judging by this production, has some way to go in perfecting full-evening narratives. Call me pedantic, tell me about poetic licence, but I can't help bridling at how, by using Degas' paintings as inspiration, he has built his piece on a falsehood.