The Bedroom Philosopher’s hilarious Songs from the 86 Tram is without doubt my favourite show of the festival to date.

In it, this acutely talented performer brings the journey from Bundoora to Docklands on my local tram route, the #86, to wonderful, three dimensional life through character-based monologue and song. As Steve Bennett writes at Chortle, this is ‘a concept album of a show’; told through the tram driver’s sometimes (appropriately) muffled announcements and by a series of instantly recognisable characters: the talkative but forgetful grandmother, the depressed housewife, the Northcote hipster, the Collingwood junkie, the city suit, and others.

Myself and my mate Martin, who saw the show with me, and the audience as a whole, were in constant fits of laughter throught this show, from go to woah. I implore, nay insist, that you see this quintessentially Melbourne show as soon as you can: it’s as close to perfect a comedy production as I’ve ever seen.