In a bright yellow container, we are encompassed by the comedy stylings of Dru Cripps. Suggested to me by another fellow comedic clown, I await to embark upon an hour of improvisation.

Beginning with a mime act, engaging with the audience and immediately getting us to create sounds with his prompt through mime, the room soon descends into chaos with a few more rambunctious amongst us providing more of the content for Dru to pull upon. With his smiling face, he takes this in his stride and uses it fully to his advantage; it does almost feel as if it was scripted and planned.

The wool is pulled back from our eyes as Dru reveals he indeed can talk and we start a different part to the show using his loop machine to create music, prompted by selected audience members on jobs, interests and music tastes. His quick uptake and ability to create a song is really clever and skilful but there is still a slight essence of unsurety and nervousness in his engagement, understandable for such a big festival.

Dru doesn’t let anything stop him – when the unplanned power goes out and descends us into darkness, it takes a moment for Dru to pause in the hopes that this comes back quickly. When it doesn’t, he improvises a funny but slightly scary moment in the dark, using a torch and the length of the container, and this adds to our giggles.

Dru Cripps: Juicy Bits is a fun performance to be surprised by and ideally what Fringe is about; something unusual and unexpected, in amongst the big flashing lights. He has a great career ahead of him with a little bit of confidence in his abilities.