Returning for its second successive Fringe, the eccentric variety act which is The Insect Circus is the kind of entertainment you just don’t find elsewhere.  In a brilliantly simple premise, a Victorian travelling insect circus is made real: flies, wasps, beetles and ladybirds are scaled up to human size, to perform a seemingly neverending parade of old-school circus acts under the benign control of a besuited ring-master.

When we took in the Circus last year, we found it a “homely, old-fashioned take on an inspired idea” – good for all but the youngest kids, but with plenty for grown-ups to chuckle at too.  The line-up may well have changed by now, but to give you a flavour of what you might see: there was a cute comedy of manners from a troupe of performing dust-mites, we were almost knocked flying by a charging beetle and, when the wasp-tamer foolishly turned her back on her deadly pets, the whole audience felt a genuine frisson of fear.

The circus acts themselves are funny rather than impressive, though we do understand that nothing’s easy when you’re dressed as a giant spider.  Still, it’s charming, relaxed and at just £7, it delivers a lot of entertainment for your money.  So do try to make the time for this singular show; you'll not see its like for a while.