Laura Davis says this new show isn’t about loneliness. It’s not about dead birds either, but there’s a lot of talk about them. While walking on the beach, they found some kids putting feathers into sandcastles, and wondered why there were so many; Davis ended up finding hundreds of poor polluted seagulls, and called a helpline manned by an unhelpful character called Linda.

That kind of anecdote might sound grim in transcription, but Davis has an inimitable style that makes it work. Sporting a shaggy birds-nest of hair, the now Edinburgh-based Australian comic offers a ‘sea-captain energy’, and while her tall tales don’t reflect on piracy or anything quite so adventurous, Albatross speaks the international language of firmly-observed quirk.

Davis offers an outsider’s views of Scottish life having moved into a flat that’s next to a bagpipe school; ‘they could be playing them or kicking them about, it makes no difference.’ Davis discovers that there’s more to birdwatching than keeping an eye on chicken nuggets as they rotate in a microwave, particularly if that microwave is haunted. These are arcane rabbit holes explored in self-deprecating style, particularly when Davis is explaining the bare-bones production and minimal staging of this empathetic show.

Laura Davis: Albatross, Monkey Barrel, until 25 August, 2.55pm; main picture: Chayla Taylor.