When Adam Lenson was diagnosed with cancer aged 34, his first-world, middle-class existence was understandably turned upside down. Having diverted from the path he was on once already (after dropping out of medical school to become a theatre director), Lenson found himself questioning his choices and taking stock of both his past and potential selves.

As life flashes before his eyes by way of a series of TV monitors rewinding the days, the end result in Hannah Moss’ production is a playful offloading of assorted what-ifs amid the sliding doors of his own mortality. Using a microphone and loop pedals to create a kind-of karaoke lecture, Lenson channels his experience into a focused meditation made even more life-affirming by the fact that he is here at all.
In a show developed at Camden People’s Theatre, geeks might also pick up on the lesser-spotted connection between children’s comedy gangster musical Bugsy Malone and Daft Punk (simples, once you know it). The former not only gives Lenson’s show its title, but that intertwining lends it a synchronicity that shows how very different parallel lives intertwine. Like the song says, you give a little love and it all comes back to you. 

Anything That We Wanted To Be, Summerhall, until 27 August, 12.30pm.