We all know Har­ry Pot­ter, right? The love­ly folks over at Playshop have turned its basic premise into an improv show called High School Mag­i­cal, full of hi-jinks and com­e­dy of the wiz­ard­ing sort.

It’s ten years since the Cho­sen One (who I pre­sume is gift­ed the title by the audi­ence each show, but was Leonar­do Pen­guin (Sam Irwin) last night) defeat­ed the creep­ing dark­ness, and all the folks from Spelling­ton Col­lege of the Mag­ic Arts have reunit­ed at their school for their ten year school reunion.

Sex­u­al Health teacher Maude McGill (Pip­pa Drake­ford-Croad) — putting off a frankly impres­sive Mag­gie Smith impres­sion — has a dark secret all of her own, while Leonar­do Pen­guin just wants to relive his for­mer glo­ry. Hay­ley Rose Dyer (Gab­by Ander­son) wants every­one to fol­low her on Witcha­gram and Penum­bra Chick­weed (Alayne Dick) is almost deter­mined to get every­one high.

Playshop’s known for qual­i­ty improv and this show is no excep­tion. They bring the whim­sy and mag­ic of the wiz­ard­ing world, with­out falling into the weird­ness of some mag­i­cal tropes. Every spell ends with ‘io’ — for exam­ple, “Open Door-io!” which does exact­ly what it says on the tin, and the mag­ic has no lim­its.

High School Mag­i­cal feels up with the times, which I enjoy, and I’ll nev­er say no to a bit of innu­en­do. It’s just bloody fun, eh.

There is a main cast through­out the week for the show, as well as sup­port­ing artists who pop in as new char­ac­ters occa­sion­al­ly, and since it is improv the sto­ry changes every night, so I know I’ll def­i­nite­ly be com­ing to High School Mag­i­cal again.

High School Mag­i­cal is being per­formed at BATS The­atre from now until Sat­ur­day. Get your tick­ets here!