This disjointed yet charming site-specific experience links various different performance styles in a creative response to the life and work of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps.

Phillipps was a Victorian archaeologist and Shakespearian scholar and collector who built his “rustic wigwam” home near the site.

Genial tweed-wearing guide and project creator Marc Rees introduces the concept of his promenade production on the bus journey from the Old Steine to Roedale Allotments’ secluded valley, distributing gardening rosettes along the way.

Shakespeare’s quotes on flowers and gardens connect different scenes: the approach of Birnam Wood is enacted by Hollingbury Park Bowls Club, and the Community Youth Cast are camouflaged in greenery as scurrying, chanting and protesting fairies. Writer Charles Nicholl slows the pace with a lecture on “H-P” the man, embodied by a magnificently-costumed Guillermo Weickert Molina.

The audience members chatted freely with allotment holders (including a sprightly 93-year-old) and bonded on a treasure hunt through the gardens.

From the mysterious wheeled shed containing glowing Perspex houses to moments of eccentric ritual dance, not everything was explained, yet the tea, teacakes and seed swap rounded it off in a friendly way.

This is a truly unusual experience, and a great chance to explore a little-known yet magical Brighton landscape.