Robinson College used to be famous mainly for Nick-Clegg-related-reasons, but not anymore. Its Brickhouse Theatre really is currently hosting a musical adaptation of Channel 4’s cult 90’s game show The Crystal Maze.

As with the original, we watched host Richard O’Brien lead six contestants, wearing awful Vanilla-Ice-tracksuits, through the maze in the hope of getting crystals that buy you prize winning time in the Crystal Dome.

Let’s just be honest, in terms of production quality, this one was a real shocker: weak singing, horrendous scene changes, nervous acting, oh yeah, and the curtain went up 35 minutes late.

But hang on, what the hell was I expecting from Crystal Maze: The Musical? I actually reckon the production is just, just saved from its manifold flaws by the sheer silliness of it all. Needless to say, this is certainly the only show this term where you will see giant dancing bananas, the camp awfulness of Richard O’Brien masterfully captured by Fergus Ross Ferrier, and a Crystal Dome made out of tin foil and chicken wire.

And I haven’t even mentioned the ludicrous plot. Sorry to spoil it, but I have to tell you this. OK, Channel 4 is secretly kidnapping the contestants so that it can sell them to a Mexican slave-trader with a Geordie accent called Juan, and use the proceeds to fund new US sitcom Friends that will be shown on TV everyday for the next 20 years, thus securing the station’s financial future. This was, of course, all revealed through a song. The chorus was “save our station with your subjugation” and it included lines like “Veronica, you’ll pay for Monica, Joss, you’ll pay for Ross, but who will pay for Rachel?”

Don’t go if you like your theatre slick and polished, but if you’re up for a laugh, why not? In a way it was all quite refreshing. The Cambridge drama scene does perhaps take itself just a little too seriously, and this is one show that definitely, definitely, didn’t. By Joel Massey