Everyone has a Rubik’s Cube stashed away somewhere. Or maybe you had one of those cool triangular ones. Could you have been one of the lucky few to own an original Rainbow Master Ball? If so, this show is going to hit you in a tender spot.

Leung is a grown up version of Data from The Goonies, complete with cute, geeky clothes and an obsession with gadgets and puzzles. So much so, in fact, that his childhood puzzles form the basic of his Comedy Festival show Lawrence Leung: The Marvellous Misadventures of Puzzle Boy.

In an attempt to understand his own recently discovered suitcase full of adolescent love letters, Leung takes his audience back to his childhood days, filled with hours of frustration at solving puzzles, impressing girls and misspelt confessions of adoration. Leung’s style feels more like an intimate conversation at a small party; you get the impression he’s telling you a personal secret rather than a rehearsed performance, and it makes for a good feeling.

Complete with a truly unbelievable (or possibly extremely deceptive) dexterous finale, Leung entertains in a personal, bubbly and mischievous manner, and you get the feeling that he’s just as excited as his audience at regaling the public about his somewhat embarrassing childhood love escapades. Try and be there on the night he finally gets reunited with his long lost first love of 1983.

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