There's traditional Christmas entertainment, then there's this offering at the children's cultural centre in Dublin. Frankly, it is - well - like something from the last century.

Its closest mid-20th century antecedent is one of those Crosby family Christmas TV specials. Susie Kennedy plays the Bing role here, arriving late and snow-covered into the Home 'n' Hearth set, but wired for sound, ready to slip into her slippers and lead the gang smoothly (what a lovely voice she has!) through a rake of holiday standards, the odd recitation and a few jazzier numbers for the cool cats in the audience.

ChristmaSing, in fairness, is also (quietly) subversive of the cliche: "Home" is an attractive chaos of fractured domesticity; "Hearth" is a cluttered solid-fuel range with clothes drying all around it; the "family" is an apparently unrelated group of adult friends. And the piano player (David Boyd) is liable to lose the run of himself when the music gets hot.

Devised by its four-person cast, plus Ark director Martin Drury, this show abandons the semblance of a narrative thrust that has characterised previous Christmas shows here. Also unhappily dispensed with, compared with other Ark efforts, are musical director Nico Brown's wackier instruments, and most elements of play and pretending - anything obviously "childlike", actually. And, while my pair of kids bounced, boogied and banged out the tunes with the best of them (they enjoyed the biscuits too - thanks) I wasn't surprised to hear most of the after-show enthusiasm at the coat-racks coming from the grown-ups.

For the children - who, it should be added, really loved the Ark's concurrent Adeste exhibition, with its gorgeous Christmas crib - ChristmaSing was lovely, sweet, charming, pretty, kinda funny in places and more than a little boring.

Until January 9th. For booking tel 01-6707788