★★★☆☆ When Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened at the Curve Leicester, the anticipation in the theatre was palpable. This is one of Edward Albee’s most notorious works; a play so ferociously written, so cutting in its depiction of marriage, that it shocked audiences when it first premiered in 1962.

★★★☆☆ Frantic Assembly celebrates its 30th anniversary with Lost Atoms, a brand-new play written by award-winning playwright Anna Jordan.

Fringe theatre has a certain superpower: taking the unlikeliest of subjects and transforming them into musicals. From serial killers to SpongeBob, there’s nothing too niche. But these shows usually fall into one of two categories: gloriously bonkers or unexpectedly brilliant. So, where does Nerds, the tech-infused musical comedy now playing at Curve Theatre, Leicester, land on that spectrum?