Set against the insidious backdrop of America’s movement towards Don’t Say Gay in the classroom, teacher and musical comedian Tim Murray delivers a fun, fearless romp through his pop-culture obsession with witches. Heavy on Wicked iconography but with multiple costume changes, Murray has been bullied and inhibited all his life, first as a closeted child hiding his sexuality and now by otherwise enlightened students, mocking his age.

His solaces are sorceresses, crones and hags, shunned but fierce, empowered outsiders to whom he pays tribute in arch, witty observations and varied, original songs. The opening number, ‘I Wanna Be Witches’, sets the tone for a prideful spell of self-expression.

Appreciators of 1990s ‘hot sluts’ movie The Craft and those whose spirit animal is poor, lamented Doctor Dillamond will find this an enchanting brew. Yet while Witches is niche, it carries a universal appeal for tolerance that everyone, not least JK Rowling, should be able to get on board with. Murray has a great set of pipes and straddles an imaginary broomstick with sass and self-deprecation. 

Tim Murray Is Witches, Underbelly Bristo Square, until 27 August, 9.20pm; 28 August, 2.55pm.