Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 2

Gein's Family Giftshop bound on stage in their pants to pumped up music. They put on PE kits, and launch into an hour full of dark, funny and somewhat twisted ideas and sketches.

It's the ideas that drive the trio, getting to the nub of a scene with an acknowledged disregard for intro or exit to any sketch. The scenes merge together like the edges of the colours of a menacing rainbow – there are differences between them and yet the actual handovers are somewhat blurry.

There's a sibling-style mutual confidence and easy disregard for each other's safety or vanity as the trio engage. Some sketches give the impression of coming from a game of writer's brinkmanship to out-gross or out-darken the other two – an exercise that mostly pays off. The gags for the most part are regular and fast – great in terms of discipline, but it does mean that some punchlines are less surprising or punchy than others. And there are longer sketches that struggle to maintain the laughter along with the intrigue.

These versatile and engaging performers serve up an enjoyably dark and silly hour, amusingly wrong-footing the audience with a hearty mixture of the familiar and the downright odd.