With the amount of energy, athletic skill and concentration demanded by performing an hour-long solo juggling show, it’s no wonder performer Wes Peden needs a lie down halfway through Rollercoaster. Peden (who appeared in 2016’s juggling smash-hit Water On Mars) has created a love letter to rollercoasters, drawing parallels between the beauty of a painted cart flying, twisting and looping through steel knots, and the beauty of juggling balls, hoops and clubs following the same weightless trajectory.

He sends a single red ball ricocheting through a plastic tube he has curved intricately around his body; he orbits spinning plates like flying saucers in slow motion through pretzel knots of his legs and arms; and he sets himself wacky challenges, performing forfeits when he drops a club. It’s wondrous and colourful, cartoonish and mesmerising, all the more beautiful for the snippets of voiceover which detail the rollercoasters that fascinate him.

Wes Peden: Rollercoaster, Assembly Roxy, until 26 August, 5pm; main picture: Fahimeh Hekmatandish.