A Little Nonsense, Bike Shed Theatre, Tues 4th – Fri 14th January 2014, 7:30pm
If you feel you need a little bit of dark comedy in your life, maybe you’ll find A Little Nonsense to be the answer, a dark look into the otherwise humorous world of a clown. While being a bare-knuckle look at the sharp edge of funny, A Little Nonsense is an original black comedy that explores the clown inside every man and the mirth that is hidden in melancholy.
The production by Bristol’s acclaimed Junction Theatre follows a clown whose freedom to play and ability to take life seriously have been lost, a tale where the clown has the sense beaten back in to him. Through mime, slapstick, poetry and music, A Little Nonsense follows the farcical, haunting and abstract relationship of this unloving and tortured double-act and celebrates the importance of having light and shade within our lives.
Described as “Genuinely faultless” by Broadway Baby, the staged drama draws on the melancholy and slapstick of Buster Keaton, the frustrations of language in Samuel Beckett, and the wry wit of Spike Milligan to create a unique and ballsy dark comedy in which the audience is led between moments of hilarity, violence and dark surrealism.
Tickets are £12 (£8 conc.) (£5 Tuesdays)
All performances start at 7:30pm
Tickets can be bought online or by contacting the box office on 01392 434169