Presented as a lecture on how to develop an effective identity by leaning into the stereotypes, Playing Latinx is a witty meditation on the relationship between art and bigotry, a warm comedy with a fierce political message. Guido Garcia Lueches is charismatic, whether exaggerating sexiness and menace or slipping into a more natural character, and messes with the predictable representations of Latinx characters, from mysterious mystic through to sexualised manual worker.

When he drops the pretence for a moment of sharp condemnation of the way that these characters encourage political and social prejudice, he demonstrates how clowning around can be weaponised. The audience are invited to learn how Latinx identity is shaped by the demands of a casting agent to whom there is no care for the individual, only in a strange belief that everywhere south of Texas is a monolithic assemblage of ‘others’.

Distinctions of culture are lost or reduced to certain simplistic personae with Lueches very funny in his depictions of those personae, drawing out the elisions and exaggerations in a series of sketches and routines. The comedy’s bite can be abrupt, but Lueches connects lazy conventions to political problems, not least in the Home Office’s attitude towards migrants but also in the mundane social interactions that insist on a Latinx glamour and flamboyance.

Playing Latinx, Summerhall, until 27 August, 6.55pm.