LIGHTERS, plastic bags, bin lids and even the kitchen sink taking on a life of their own.

It’s the wonderful world of Stomp, the multi-award winning theatrical phenomenon, which visits the Mayflower for the first time next week, fresh from the London 2012 Olympic closing ceremony.

Creators and co-directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas have developed a show, which includes rhythm, theatre, comedy and dance, and has been enjoyed by 14million people across 50 countries.

Their revamped show is inspired by their large-scale Las Vegas version.

New music and choreography join a fresh array of ordinarily mundane objects, onto which the cast work their musical magic.

Huge, ribbed tubes, previously used for recycling fluorescent lights, are themselves recycled into outsized Guiros, a Latin American percussion instrument, played by scraping the ridged sides with a stick.

In one of two spectacular new routines, paint cans are tossed between the performers, as they simultaneously build an astonishingly complex rhythm over every surface of the airborne cans.

The Stompers are also joined by inflated monster truck inner tubes, here strapped around their waists to create both a dance of bobbing, whirling rubber skirts and pounding, portable drum kits: the ultimate redefinition of ‘surround sound’.

It all ends with a spectacular climax – a carnival of leaping, spinning, skidding and pounding as performers vent their energies on an unsuspecting orchestra of metal dustbins, bin lids, tubs and water butts.

Stomp is at the Mayflower from Tuesday to Saturday.