Half of Circolombia’s profits feed back in to the circus school for Colombian street children where this afternoon’s nine performers graduated from, and there is a raw, threatening authenticity that inhabits the show.

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His shows have always been as high on concept as they are in laughs, whether travelling the world finding other Dave Gormans, travelling the world in order to religiously follow his horoscope or, um, travelling the world on his Googlewhack Adventure.

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Australian surrealist Sam Simmons, having successfully delivered an Old El Paso taco kit to the moon, strips from his spacesuit to reveal a dangerously tight light blue t-shirt and shorts combination.

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The RSAMD’s impressive production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical about the pointillist painter Georges Seurat and his most famous painting, ‘A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grand Jatte’, features strong performances by a young cast.

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Camille O’Sullivan, dressed as a cross between Little Red Riding Hood and the Evil Queen from Snow White, hauntingly picks her way past lampshades, glitter balls, wooden chests, bird cages and a doll house to the spotlight.

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1996 Perrier Comedy Award winner Milton Jones hasn’t exactly become an overnight success. He has had regular series on Radio 4 since winning the prize every Fringe comedian desires, but let’s face it – who hasn’t?

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A breathtaking fusion of precision acrobatics, martial arts and dazzling circus skills, Mulan is based on the legend of China’s greatest heroines. Not that anyone cares of course, as a visit to The Chinese State Circus is not about the plot – you are here to be stupefied by the dexterity and expertise of the greatest circus performers on the planet.

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A well-dressed, well-spoken queue forms along George Street waiting for Chris Addison’s first festival appearance in five years. He’s been rather busy. Starring roles in BBC2 comedy The Thick Of It and its big screen adaptation In The Loop have been supplemented by regular appearances on Have I Got News For You and Mock The Week, and he is now clearly a big hit with the middle classes.

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Before you know it, Harlekin has begun. A medieval jester-like puppeteer guides you to your seat as gleefully as if you were on strings yourself.

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The magnificently costumed cast of Death of a Samurai greet you as you queue for a show they describe as ‘Shakespeare meets Japanese manga’.

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