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IT'S only the locals who are lost. Only the locals who would rather be somewhere else. Only the locals who wish they liked the place better.

For Suspect Culture's first community project, director Graham Eatough has asked a group of seven locals where they're from, and where they'd like to be.

The result is a fragmentary collage that jumps back and forth in time, juxtaposing dreams and ambitions with scenes of everyday tedium: watching TV spliced with life on the moon. It's the fantasy that's the most vivid.

All this is structured round a series of video journeys into Glasgow's Central Station by the same actors, appearing on two large mobile screens. Their straight-to-camera musings are matched by monologues on stage, and only in the final scene do we hear anything like a conversational exchange. The picture finds its form as the pieces of the jigsaw slot into place.

It's a good deal more original in approach and presentation than your average community fare, even if in content it doesn't have anything strikingly original to say. More, with its use of repeated gesture, and rhythmical movement, its stylised use of space and light, it seems like not so much a work in progress, as a number of ideas in progress, a rough sketchpad, perhaps, for Suspect Culture shows to come.