Just as history’s written by the victors, so mythology reflects the majorities. But what if it didn’t work that way? Remythed answers that question with a joyful, creative twist on familiar legends, building colourful yet credible new narratives of inclusion.

The myths they reinterpret come from many sources, and diverse cultures. There’s a genderqueer, neurodiverse variant of the Biblical creation story, which recognises that paradise for one person might be hell for another. Lucy Roslyn’s performance in this segment is particularly touching; her character’s created fully-formed but sweetly child-like, delighting in learning the names of creatures in the Garden of Eden even as they discover their own identity.

We also get a re-imagining of the Arabian Nights as a sympathetic royal cover-up, and a story of a gender-fluid heir who’s banished from court until they learn the value of humility. But my personal favourite, perhaps because I grew up hearing the original tale, is a rather clever origin story for Coventry’s Lady Godiva. In the version we’re shown here, the Lady has her own reasons for riding naked through the city – but we witness how the other actors commentate, speculate and warp the truth, until it’s closer to the story we know today.

The performance has a consciously relaxed feel, with some lines apparently improvised, and the actors dropping out of character to swap banter and comment on their own performances. It’s fun and inclusive, and banishes any preconceptions about staid or unapproachable theatre – but it does also interrupt the storytelling. On the day I attended there was a bit too much of it, though the end-of-term mood of the dying days of the Fringe might have been a contributory factor.

This is, of course, all just a fairytale: a world where true love is inevitably returned, and acceptance always triumphs in the end. But the performance is sweet, not saccharine – and if the stories we tell influence the way we think, it’s important that everyone can picture their own happy-ever-after. In the end, Remythed is simply a charming show, which thoughtfully plays with its source material and bears its important message lightly.