No kidding, the goats are great!

TRUE T to its title, the Royal Court’s Goats features frisky little goats. They are the only reason to see this muddled, boring play about political repression in Syria.

It may have legitimate c criticisms of President Assad’s bully boys, but this production is a clunker.

With war killing hundreds of men, a lone father protests against the slaughter. The authorities m move against him.

By way of a big gesture they offer each bereaved family a goat, to remind t them of their dead sons.

Surreal satire, realism, c comedy, tragedy? Director Hamish Pirie seems unable to decide. The casting is a mish-mash, the plot elusive. Video footage is used ineffectively. On and on it goes. By the end, almost half the audience had left.

Still, the goats are fun. One went slightly loopy, whacking its head against the floor, j jumping on its hind legs and eventually racing off under the stage. Cue helpless c corpsing from the stalls and e even from the actors. Someone get that goat an agent!