Star Warz Denude is fantastic fun from the moment you are ushered into the auditorium by some very lightly armoured Stormtroopers to the spectacular grand finale.

It has almost everything you could ask for from a burlesque show based on a certain well-known space opera: Twi’leks and twerking, breasts and blasters, music and mankinis, and perhaps most importantly, cosplay and comedy. Yoda the MC for the evening is, and after a hilarious solo act, most of your favourite characters he introduces: C3PO, Luke Skywalker, a scruffy-looking Han Solo, a lightsabre-wielding General Leia (not wearing her brass bikini, alas, but trust me, you won’t be disappointed), and a delectable Darth Vader whose seductive routine gives a new meaning to the phrase ‘Star Wars fan’.

There’s also a troupe of Twi’leks, some friends from Mos Eisley cantina, a small tribe of Ewoks who would have greatly improved Return of the Jedi, and that splinter in my mind’s eye, Jar-Jar Binks… though to be fair, Jar-Jar has never been funnier than he is in this show. No wookiees, unfortunately, and I didn’t see any Moffs, grand or otherwise. Unless you’re sitting in the front row, audience participation is mostly limited to a little singing, a lot of applause and the occasional pew-pew-pew (but note the ‘mostly’). If you do sit in the front row, you may be invited to participate in the dancing, but this is purely voluntary and the performers do not use any Jedi mind tricks. Honest.

You don’t need to be a Star Wars fan to enjoy it: at least 90% of the jokes still work even if you don’t know your TK-421 from your THX1138. And if you’re over 18 and decide to skip this show because you still take Star Wars seriously, you’ll be missing out on an enormously entertaining evening. Because, remember, the force will be with you, always.