THE last time Mischief-La-Bas appeared at the Tramway, back in July, it was with the stunning large-scale spectacle of their huge, imaginative triptych, Peeping At Bosch, based on Bosch's great painting The Garden Of Earthly Delights. This time around the scale could hardly be more different, as Scotland's wackiest and most extreme street theatre company mount a tiny foyer fairground experience, to accompany the current visit to the Tramway of the spooky NTS/Catherine Wheels children's show, Something Wicked This Way Comes.

So in a corner of the Tramway's central hall, here are three little Punch and Judy-style booths, entitled Man-Eating Chicken, Wild Man Of Kelvindale and Fortune Telling Head; and there's a fairground barker who lures members of the audience one by one into peeping behind the curtains, to be caught out by a visual joke, then lightly mauled, and finally treated to a tiny, rolled-up prediction delivered on the tongue of a gorgeous sphinx-like creature.

It's a brief experience – about five minutes, all told – but a vivid one. And it could hardly be more appropriate as a tiny curtain-raiser to Catherine Wheels' dark tale, based on Ray Bradbury's nightmare vision of the ambivalent character of the funfair, which comes to town offering pleasure, distraction, enchantment; but extracts a high price for the fun it offers.