Tom Flanagan, 28, has performed his first solo show Kaput in several countries and on the weekend he will be performing it in his home town for the first time.

“Because I grew up in Fruit Flies I had a vast acrobatic knowledge, but you come out of school saying ‘wow I have all these skills but how do I use them’,” Flanagan said.

“I’ve always been a class clown and a bit of an annoying rat bag and I wanted to be a professional ratbag, so I bought that cheekiness to the stage and made a solo show.”

He first took his show to the UK in 2012, where it won the spirit of the fringe award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Since then, it has been nominated for best circus and physical theatre two years in a row in Perth and once in Adelaide.

The hour-long silent “flatstick” acrobatic comedy pays homage to the silent movie era and is backed with a live piano score by John Thorne.

“It’s had a great response and I’ve been living off it for almost three years now,” Mr Flanagan said.

“It kind of works like a pixar film in a way, there are kids’ jokes and then adult jokes that go over the kids’ heads and that sort of thing,”

The show tells the story of a clumsy man who tries to fix things, but always ends up causing entertaining chaos.

“There will be planks of wood hitting me in the head, slipping and falling ladders,” he said.

Kaput is part of Borderville that is being put on by The Flying Fruit Fly Circus to celebrate its 35th anniversary.

The performance will be held at The Butter Factory Theatre in Wodonga tomorrow at 3pm.

A full house is expected for the show.

Tickets from the HotHouse Theatre or at hothousetheatre.com.au.