The wonderful diversity that is FRINGE WORLD strikes yet again. Tricky to categorise this one but definitely a night of family fun. There’s a bit of ‘escape room’ style problem solving, some ‘easter egg’ type treasure hunting and a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ for the rest.

This is the fourth year that the team at REmida have been hosting/ presenting a show for FRINGE WORLD at their Prospect Place premises and again the use of the physical space there gives it a unique engaging feel.

I’m not sure that the actual set-up of the plot is crucial to the fun but basically, there is a King (Midas) and a Witch who has cursed him. The audience members each night all become members of two opposing teams – the king’s team or the witch’s team. And it is a fairly active participation - up and down stairs and into and out of various resource rooms and workshops at the Warehousiam (as the REmida space is dubbed for the show).

The show is presented by the REmida Artists (a collection of writers, performers, artists, poets and craftspeople) and several among the group are actively involved in the show, led by Dr Paul Armishaw, writer/ deviser and a key performer.

All the performers delight in providing suitably equivocal clues and contribute great enthusiasm which energises the guest participants. Cheating is ‘passively’ encouraged and on any given night there will likely be a few who relish being given that licence.

It is a challenging show in the sense that ideally you are excited by some ambiguity and by collaborating with a team of strangers. If you are, then this is highly recommended – it’s fun, the team behind it are very friendly, and as an incidental bonus, you get to learn a little about all the good stuff that REmida does to encourage creatively repurposing what might otherwise be landfill. All the costumes, props and materials used in the show are made from repurposed materials.

And of course, if you happen to attend and are thinking of giving a React, there surely can only be one category for such a response – ‘recycle that’!