An Evening with Mere Mortals
A man is pursued, his life shattered by a misplaced Ikea catalogue in the briefcase given him by the boss he thought was a friend, leaving behind a dead woman and duplicitous delivery driver with a taste for noodles, John Chesterton a man who once blithely blended into the orange cushions of his favourite chair, a career civil servant happy to go unnoticed, but is now targeted by the agents of the League of Bespoke Furniture Makers.
Elsewhere, and unconnected other than the strange and inexplicable resemblance of the characters to those in the first story, young Billy Gable finds himself carried across the world on a dangerous mission in the company of one-man army Ace Targét, taken from his home in Dublin first to Paris, then the warzone of Rajabahad and finally the Hello Kitty Helipad atop the headquarters of the Yakuza in Tokyo in search of a power source which could change the world, simultaneously sought by an older evil which has endured in the shadows.
An Evening with Mere Mortals comprising two exhausting non-stop episodes so packed with manic mime and vicious punnage it is somewhat akin to a seizure, Stjälkar and Inbound are performed by Jack Murphy, Dylan Tonge-Jones and Dan Monaghan, breathing life and death into a merry-go-round of misfit and often misanthropic characters and over-the-top action, with guns, pipe bombs, Daim bars and an eyeball flung around with gay abandon, damaged heroes willing to compromise everything except the mission.
Their approach to physical comedy theatre akin to the legendary Police Cops but lacking the budget to approach those modest production values, these Mere Mortals are perhaps determined to stake their claim as the next best thing, the sexy one, the ginger one and the other one screaming and sweating their hour upon the stage littered with the broken and bullet-ridden bodies of those who stood in their way, unrefined perhaps but undeniably enthusiastic and entertaining.
An Evening with Mere Mortals continues at Zoo Playground until Sunday 25th August
