Jump

If you normally pointed me in the direction of something labelled kung-fu comedy, I would run rapidly in the other direction. Luckily I had a taste of this show at a showcase and was tempted.

So now all I have to do is try to give you a flavour of this Korean show - here goes! Think acrobatics, silent film comedy, circus, knockabout violence, Jackie Chan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Benny Hill slapstick. OK, thinking of all those? Well, you've still got no real idea of this ferocious, loud, wildly funny and breathtakingly skilful show.

It's sublimely controlled silliness. It's astonishing, deadpan physical comedy. It packs more colour and movement into its hour and a quarter than most bigger, more elaborate, shows manage at far greater length.

Even when the routines seem to have whiskers on them, the inept burglars or the interrupted sexual shenanigans, they come up fresher than fresh paint with this company. They even manage a glorious variation on Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy with a sequence supposedly in pitch darkness which we of course can see.

And this show has an 'embarrass the audience member' routine where the company's reaction gets the laughs, none of which are at the victim's expense.

The comic timing on display really takes the breath away. Child or adult, if you don't come away from Jump with a gloriously silly grin on your face and a feeling of stunned amazement at what the human body is capable of, then you're probably beyond hope.