I HAD never seen Tilted before, nor the work of the company's choreographer and director Maresa von Stockert, but I'll look out for them again.

With her team of five performers, she has devised an exciting and dynamic piece that refers back to Eastern Bloc repression but which has plenty of contemporary resonances.

Trapped gives you bleak echoes of an Orwellian word of super surveillance as it flows fluidly through a succession of telling set pieces.

This 75-minute show is at its strongest when the dialogue is not the main focus. The voice-overs, music and essentially the relentlessly physical choreography are rich enough story-tellers.

What's more, your heart goes out to the performers who are exerting themselves physically as well as having to speak lines that are not always the most fluid.

This was a welcome addition to the Exeter Summer Festival line-up.