When I last saw Mae Martin she was playing whimsical ditties on an acoustic guitar. That was a long time ago and although the 28-year-old looks as pixie-ish as ever, she has come a long way since then.

The Canadian comic's latest show, Us, is her “this is me” moment. It’s an autobiographical piece prompted by some introspection when she was putting together a dating profile for herself and was forced to ask questions about her sexuality. She has had relationships with women and men, so which box does she tick? And why does it matter?

If the subject sounds potentially heavy Martin gives it the lightest of touches, making important points and making her audience chuckle at the same time. A story about her father in particular, who had a penchant for walking around naked at home, will make men’s eyes water with laughter while they also wince. There is a brief spot of seriousness at the end but it is sweetened by a lot of infectious humour.

A number of striking routines are deftly woven together, from the tale of a crush at summer camp to Martin’s description of her crazy bohemian family and her childhood, to an incident in a Wetherspoons pub which shook her up. David Baddiel has a joke about the fact that he has only ever been on the receiving end of two violent attacks – one for being Jewish, one for being mistaken for a Pakistani. Martin had a similar experience – being verbally abused for being a lesbian and then for being a gay man.

In the end Martin says that for her sexual attraction isn’t about genitals anyway and she lists things she finds attractive that both men and women could possess to prove it. As she concludes, suggesting that she has inherited a hint of her parents’ hippiness, there isn’t really an us and them, we are all just us. 

Until October 3. Tickets here.