Two men are stuck in a 1.5 metre square box. They speak few words - when they do, it is often not in English.

What ensues is not exactly dance, mime, clowning or acrobatics but a little bit of each. And it is by turns hilarious, sinister and curiously, powerfully moving.

Inspired by Stanley Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Brian Keenan's book about the Beirut hostages, An Evil Cradling, the physical limitations of the box explores notions of space and confinement.

At times, the two actor/dancers use their prison as a playground, enacting a version of hide and seek by squashing into every corner.

At others, the walls help them perform impressive feats of upside down and diagonal acrobatics giving a very real sense of them floating around in gravity-less outer space.

And disturbingly, the metal walls are also used to emphasise the frustration of entrapment as one of the characters mindlessly bashes his frame against them like a frightened bird trying to get out of a window.

The body and all its possible contortions is manipulated to not only express the relationship between the two men and their surroundings but their interaction with each other.

They fight, play, ignore each other and tease. They encircle each other in their arms and twist around like links in a chain, getting so entangled that they become a single indistinguishable form, united against the sorry state they are both in.

Emotional, raw and a startling example of how movement can convey so much more than words, this show prompted three curtain calls and deserves many more.