You’d ordinarily expect a midweek Fringe audience to be pretty staid, but the crowd facing Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin tonight are as giddy as a bunch of bees who’ve forgotten to take their meds. At first he’s a little giggly and slightly distracted himself at the frivolous response but before long his show fully emerges. The remainder of the hour maintains a similar scattershot energy but one that is deceptively structured. There’s poetry, politics, puns and play on words while unexpected turns of material keep you on your toes. Callbacks fly back and forth and there’s so much to unpick you’re still thinking about it days later.

The events of 2024 form the crux of Good News! It’s Been Destroyed. A year of big changes for Tyzack-Carlin, most of which were not good. He tells of an eventful move to London while later there’s some personal tragedy to discuss. Politically it was the dawn of Starmer’s Labour government and as he goes through the former PM’s first cabinet, he conjures a wonderfully absurdist routine of an encounter with Wes Streeting in the toilets of a now defunct chain of Italian restaurants. What Tyzack-Carlin has created here is passionate, silly, surreal and, at points, even beautiful. 

Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Good News! It’s Been Destroyed, Pleasance Courtyard, until 29 August, 11pm; picture: Lucy Smith.