Imagine the thrill of the Big Top in an intimate setting. That is what Circus Tatovski achieves in a seemingly effortless stream of cameo performances and acts linked together by insights into the relationships between the five characters that make up the troupe. So, in addition to the drama provided by the acts, there are dramatic stories running between them too. Love requited and unrequited, jealousy and stealing a march, and when it all gets too much for the girls, a good old fashioned cat fight. Ringmaster Igor Tatovski (Tat) tries, not entirely successfully, to manage these relationships as he gruffly introduces artists and acts.

The simple stage set in opulent reds and blacks provides the perfect backdrop to the fast-moving show and the proximity of audience to the performers allows you to thrill at the extraordinary dexterity, and the consummate vaudeville and clowning skills, of the five artists. These include Tina Carter's aerial performances. She uses beautiful cocoons and fabric hammocks to enable her to move sinuously and seemingly effortlessly between suspended poses, including moments when all one could see was a head or a leg suspended from the proscenium arch. And Sorcha Ra, who provides an exotic touch to the show with her beautiful and sinuous Egyptian (belly) dancing.

There are some impossibly fast-moving juggling routines. Clubs whizz between two and then three people. And, with the stage in complete darkness, the artists juggle ethereally blue fluorescent balls, turning the background into a sky at night that seems to explode with shooting stars and busy comets.

Fire features throughout the show, culminating in the most daring and spectacular finale, where the entire stage becomes an incredible blur of performers and fast-twirling firebrands.

Circus Tatovski hope to be back in Oxfordshire later this year. Look out for them. This is a circus that should not be missed.