¡El Conquistador!

Polonio is a poor Columbian peasant who heads for the big city when his crop fails and he yet again fails to win the lottery.

Accompanied only by his faithful plant and the TV on which he watches his beloved telenovelas (wildly popular South American soaps), he sets out to find fame and fortune.

What he actually finds is a job as a doorman for a high-rise apartment block and in Bogota a doorman is the guardian of the building. He locks and unlocks the front door, he's expected to supply the residents with all their particular needs and, via the video phone he's called on to serve as a counsellor and friend to them.

This doesn't leave much time for him to try to get his TV signal working for his soaps. And it does cause complications with the lovelorn or neurotic residents.

This is a gloriously multi-media piece performed by one man on stage but a whole range of genuine Latin American TV stars on video. The live actor is co-creator Thaddeus Phillips, originally from Colorado, who performs in Spanish with English surtitles. The interaction between him and the video sequences is always witty and imaginative. Sometimes it doesn't quite mesh but he does it with such quiet humour and charm that it really doesn't matter.

The complications get ever sillier as they become more deliberately Shakespearean. The fairy tale ending is pure delight and perfectly tops off a sweet and lovely show - a little overlong but when it's this charming, so what? And I was pleased to see the plant got to take its own bow.