As Big Brother reaches its inevitable conclusion, the Pavilion Theatre played host to a parody of viewers' almost obsessive interest in reality TV.

Unfortunately, It's Only A Game Show, performed by dance company Maxine Doyle's First Person, asked some big questions but wasn't able to answer them.

The five cast members danced and acted their way through various tasks from the "Great Game Of Greed".

They earned points for owning a Prada handbag or having children and took part in an extravagantly messy eating contest.

The stage design was sparse, limited to a couple of distorting mirrors and a number of moveable lights.

There were a couple of clever touches, one being every member of the audience was given a scorecard containing questions ranging from guessing which contestant had killed and gutted a sheep to who had the best bum.

Strangely, I seemed to be one of the few people bothering to fill it in - the audience was pretty subdued throughout.

Although there were a couple of stronger sections, for the most part this felt a bit too much like a degree show.

To succeed, any investigation of our competition culture would have to be far more subtle or, going to the other extreme, even more larger than life than the "real thing".

This piece fell somewhere between the two extremes, failing to pick apart the often complex issues and never coming close to the on-screen shenanigans of Jade and her pals.

The choice of subject matter made this show very topical but I'm afraid I would vote for it to leave the house.