When Britt met Otto, it was love at first laugh. Both clowns doing shows in Adelaide in 2019, the pair embarked on a delirious long-distance romance that looks set to end in an on-stage wedding to which we’re all invited. As it’s a clown’s wedding, plastic bananas are handed out at the door instead of confetti, and you might even end up a bridesmaid. While we’re waiting for Otto, Britt has a tale to tell, not just of long-distance love, but of lockdown, citizenship visas and festival shows. Britt Plummer does this with the aid of little more than a couple of coffee cups, a mop and a jacket to tell her true life story in Jessica Clough-McRae’s production for Plummer’s suitably named Frank Theatre. 

Returning to Edinburgh following a run in 2023, this is a glorious double bluff of a show with bags of attitude, as Plummer utilises the DIY puppetry at play to make for an exuberantly executed hour that is funny, fragile and, for Plummer, quite possibly purging. As for Otto, wherever he is, he really is a clown. In terms of this theatre piece, he just gave Britt the best wedding gift ever. Who’s laughing now?  

Fool’s Paradise, Pleasance Courtyard, until 25 August, 3pm; main picture: ShotByTrendy.