Leo

Some words of warning for afternoon revellers en route to Leo: go easy on the pints. This show messes with your head quite enough of its own accord.

In case you have missed the well-deserved hype growing around Leo for the past two years, the show sees a nattily dressed gent discover himself locked in a strange gravity-defying room. Flouting the golden rule of magic to fabulous effect, we can watch exactly what is going on the entire time, as its performer—this year William Bonnet formerly of Montreal circus fiends The 7 Fingers—deftly contorts himself into painful looking balances to create a natural picture on the adjacent screen. And vice versa.

It's hard to believe that the simple act of turning a camera on its side can reap such plentiful comic and acrobatic rewards. But then Leo isn't just built on a single trick, and it's in the first few moments that we really see what Bonnet is made of. He has a super-tuned spacial awareness that allows him to judge angles and distances perfectly; something that will come in handy later on when he's leaping all over the place. It's the lean of his arm, the crook of his ankle that creates the mind-bending relaxedness of the screen image. Even when he's scrawling a domestic graffiti scene all over one wall he seems able to tip his own brain sideways.

A first viewing of Leo wows you with its effect; a second delights you with its execution.