THE shape-shifting and spectacularly surreal character-based double act The Pajama Men will visit Fareham tonight with their tour of 2 man 3 musketeers following a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

2 man 3 musketeers is the Pajama Men's first epic novel adaptation, it premiered to critical acclaim at 2015’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen's latest ambitious undertaking is a live, comic, existential meltdown that takes place as the two comedians attempt to stage dumas’ epic, historical, romance novel from 1844…in under an hour…all thanks to a call from Kelly Leonard, vice president of American comedy institution Second City.

Leonard, the man who took a chance on them after seeing them in their first edinburgh back in 2004, before they’d circumnavigated the globe several times over, called them out of the blue two years ago and said he had an idea for a show, 2 man 3 musketeers, and he wanted them to write it.

So, in the bowels of strange venues and random hotel rooms in nine different cities across three continents, the duo have made the classic novel their own - joined early in the process by American writer and improviser Tim Sniffen, and later by argentinean musician Ignacio Agrimbau - filling it with gay centaurs and talking birds.

The show is scored with a bunch of bizarre instruments from around the globe.

See it at Ashcroft Arts Centre tonight. Call 01329 223100 or visit hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk