The old adage is that time flies when you're having fun, and that was certainly the case with Alex Horne's latest show Seven Years In The Bathroom.

Reducing the average lifespan of 79 years into an hour-long show, Horne ostensibly showed us a new way to live - ensuring you get the boring bits out of the way first (four years of housework, two years queueing, a year of blinking and the titular time spent in the bathroom) so we could enjoy highlights like four years of dreaming and 55 days of sex.

With every year of the average life reduced down to 45 seconds it was a breakneck show, powered by a powerpoint pie chart and an ongoing soundtrack, which Alex both reacted to and obeyed to the letter (wherever possible).

He was ably assisted by various punters, marrying (and Googling) the hapless Max, encouraging Mark to sleep through a third of the show and, in one particular high point, guiding another audience member to leave a mysterious message on an unsuspecting friend's answerphone.

The show fizzed with comic inventiveness and carefully planned links - a jar of Bovril served both as a device for the time spent looking for lost objects and the three months spent opening lids, while another volunteer's picture painted onstage (to represent work) then provided both the time spent shopping and the wages given to a cleaner.

Never resorting to swearing or adults-only material, it was proof that shows can be funny and inventive without catering to the lowest common denominator.

And when the show went wrong, as when Horne forgot to turn on the microwave to cook his 42nd Rustlers Burger to signify three years spent eating, it added even more laughs, as his manic energy had be upped a notch.