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Acclaimed stand-up poet, storyteller and no-fi theatremaker Jonny Fluffypunk is back from the Covid art wastelands with a brand spanking new show about Hope. Well, mostly about hope. And having to make your own sense in a world that doesn’t. And a pilgrimage across London with an effigy of a dead dog, and an epiphany beside a village hall. It’ll be funny and touching and embittered and, yes, hopeful.
Acclaimed stand-up poet, storyteller and lo-fi theatremaker Jonny Fluffypunk is back with a brand spanking new ‘stand-up spoken-word theatre’ show about Hope. Well, mostly about hope.
The world’s gone nuts. You’ll have had your problems; Jonny’s had his. He also built himself a shed in lockdown, in which to work out how to get through it.
This is the result. Inspired equally by idleness, ancient myths, and Grayson Perry’s Art Club, it’s part support group, part story about searching for the hero inside yourself, without involving M-People.
It’s about celebrating the glory of small things; about love and strength and finding some sort of meaning. By turns funny, absurd, and touching, there’s a pilgrimage across London with a home-made effigy of a dead dog, the tragedy of throwing your childhood home into a skip, and an epiphany beside a locked-up village hall.
The audience gets to pitch in. There might be music in it- though who really knows? The world keeps throwing curveballs; the best-laid plans are thrown into chaos, and Jonny’s plans are rarely that. But that’s what this show is really all about- fragile humans, and the ways we have to find to cope with it all.