Loud and rowdy, this beast relies on audience participation, millennial pop-culture references and a strong central theme: a caterpillar awaits its transition in a show which, appropriately, has a loose structure that switches between comic routines, video projections, and a full-band air-guitar performance. Encouraging a vigorous response from the audience, An(dre)a Spisto has an anarchic charisma and tetters on the brink of cultural and personal alienations.

Much of this show’s power comes from the bond between performer and audience: when Spisto considers their own narrative of migration, this work discovers a poignancy which is tempered by the humorous presentation, or swiftly hidden by pop-punk singalongs. The lack of focus can be frustrating, as ideas emerge and disappear at the speed of a screen swipe, yet it is this pace that makes El Dizzy Beast contemporary and bracing.

If some of the humour panders to this lively audience, anecdotes take on a more emotive tone, hinting at depths of doubt and anxiety that are hidden in confusion and comedy. Bold and brazen, raw and rugged, El Dizzy Beast is a rough collision of clowning and biography, hinting at future pieces that resist resolution and abandon respectable notions of theatre, while providing an effective quest for meaning.

An(dre)a Spisto: El Dizzy Beast, Assembly George Square Studios, until 27 August, 10.30pm.