Slapstick comedy is uncommon in the Fringe, but it’s front-and-centre of this (very) short play about an elderly Miss Sophie who insists on hosting her usual birthday dinner party despite all her chosen guests having died before her.

As a piece of theatre, it was a popular if tiny show at the Adelaide Fringe a few years ago, when acts were sparse due to Australia’s isolation from the rest of the Covid-ridden world. It’s back this year again, with a handful of performances just out of the city, with Ann Clarke as Miss Sophie, and the ever-comical Brendan Cooney hams it up as James, with prat-falls and increasing drunkenness notching up the physical comedy as each course is served. There is minimal dialogue, and its catchphrase will be an earworm before you leave, but the comedy is more Mr. Bean than verbal cleverness.