In the first work of the evening, Double Act, the stand-up comics have been silenced, their movements rendered dance. The hand-flicks, chin-strokes, and finger-points of stand-up comedians from around the world are brought together to form an intricate and virtuosic choreography. But it is stand-up, nonetheless, and you will be enthusiastically invited to heckle at the dancers, in a performance that shifts between delicate dancing and eager rabble-rousing. You bring the cheers and claps – we’ll give you the tomatoes to throw, and the reason to throw them.

Imagine what might have happened if the Smack the Pony team met the Muppets and decided to make a moving sculpture, or if Monty Python had taken on Pina Bausch in slow-motion, and you’d come close to the evening’s second work, The Mermaid and The Hammer. Set amongst what could be the contents of Mighty Boosh props storeroom, two dancers move through a world of constant transformations, each scenario as ridiculous as the next. Suspending the punchline for each twist of logic, divas, giraffes and mermaids appear and disappear in a circulating game of joke-hunting.