Their country torn apart by conflict, violence seeping through every crack and bombs dropping ever closer and news of terrible atrocities reaching the heart of the city. Can love conquer all and survive until the new dawn? Or will it be pulled down and debased by the air of violence flowing over the country?

Laboratorium-33's Dig for Fire returns to Edinburgh re-imaged and with a new soundtrack and what a return it is. The play explores two extremely different relationships, with both couples played superbly by Laura Cameron-Lewis and Simon Tcherniak. As one couple slowly sift through the remnants of their past relationships, remembering the good times, how each other looked and smelt, the other is a riot of sex and passion, as each scene flows into another with some excellently choreographed movement sequences expertly directed by Kieran McLoughlan and the afore mentioned Cameron-Lewis.

This play could easily have been yet another story of love won and lost within a conflict, but Lab-33 have done so much more. Making the violence more than just a backdrop to the couple more like a third lover as each is seduced in their own way. Culminating in what was a once tender relationship turning to brutal and violent sex.

Dig for Fire  is a powerful production tugging at the heart strings while losing none of it's power through over sentimentality. David Priestly's script is the lynchpin bringing together all the talents that this young company has.

Watch out for Laboratorium-33. There is nothing quite like them working in Scotland today.