For the few who may not have heard of The Corn Exchange company's Car Show, the basic idea is to have four cars with mini-plays enacted in the front seats, and an audience of three in the rear. Each play lasts for some 15 minutes, the audiences then transfer to each car in turn and there are three shows per night so that the actors give twelve performances every evening.

Car Show 2, like its predecessor, is compulsive viewing. Footie, devised and performed by Tomas O Suilleabha n and Michael Devaney, has two friends arguing about soccer and ending in fantasy-land. Mark O'Halloran directs. The Lesson, directed by Deirdre Molloy, has a woman whose husband has left her trying to find terra firma with her rebellious teenage son. Script and acting are by Fiona Kelly and Eric Lacey.

Gertrude Montgomery and Annie Ryan are the author-actors for Static Cling, in which a raffish young woman tries to con her sober-sided sister; Caroline McSweeney directs this one. Finally, Mark Doherty wrote I Am The Tiger, and acts it with Amelia Crowley, directed by Annie Ryan. It is a wry study of pretension and naivety in dubious alliance.

Theatre at its best is an experience, and so is this. The ideas are stimulating, the observations and dialogues precise, the acting on the button and the presentation an absorbing joy. And it's free.

Runs until June 30, Monday-Friday at 7.30 p.m., 8.30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Admission free, but tickets must be booked in advance through Temple Bar Properties, 18 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2;