Karim Muasher and Carrie Brown have the comfortable camaraderie, polished stage presence and patiently-honed wackiness typical of Fringe festival circuit regulars. Their well-traveled The VindleVoss Family Circus Spectacular! is a pleasant road-tested little package of offbeat clowning with just a touch of poignancy.

The show’s premise is the essentially the same as the “Puttin’ on the Ritz” scene from Young Frankenstein: bespectacled scientist Penelope VindleVoss (Brown), who has a bushy moustache despite being a lady, wants to show us how successfully she has domesticated Edvard (Muasher), a zombie. As the public test of Edvard’s humanization, she has chosen the performance of…a circus! (Cue the performers passing out mini-popcorn bags and glowsticks.) Edvard is eager to help despite his lack of dexterity, and most of the humor comes out of his genial but awkward attempts at tightrope, contortion and other circus staples. Gradually, it comes out that there is more rhyme and reason than appeared to Penelope’s odd choice of Edvard’s test material.

Muasher and Brown are expressive and confident performers, able to chug along unperturbed despite noise coming from the Baldacchino tent bar. While the show never reaches dizzying heights of comedy, the duo are watchable throughout. It’s clean enough for families, but quirky enough for Fringe, and deserves bigger crowds for the pair to play off of.

The VindleVoss Family Circus Spectacular! has two remaining performances, listed here. Tickets are available online.