Wrestling isn’t considered a sport or an artform but, as English actor and wrestler Ed Gamester declares at the close of every show, Mythos: Ragnarök is changing all that. It’s been a unique proposition since finding success through word of mouth alone, combining the delirious heel-turns and acrobatics of the WWE with Norse mythology’s merciless violence, incest and operatic betrayals. Put simply, it’s incredible fun. 

Since the show’s first Fringe run in 2022, the cast has finessed itself from ‘wrestlers who are sort-of actors’ to ‘wrestlers who can more than carry their ballistic story through performance alone’, while the stonking set-pieces are frantic enough to coax crowds into booing and cheering with the abandon of a rabid Jerry Springer episode. There’s still nothing quite like this piledriving drama and, unless another show can get an audience worked up enough to jeer ‘oathbreaker!’ at a bearded man in leather trunks, nothing will knock it from its throne. 

Mythos: Ragnarök, Underbelly Circus Hub, until 23 August, 8.40pm.