Sometimes when I’m sitting on a bus the stranger sitting next to me starts to relate all the secrets of their life, Forrest Gump style. Sometimes it is interesting, sometimes a bit weird, and sometimes it is funny. Kieran Hodgson’s show is like chatting to everyone on that bus.
He is very talented with a multitude of accents up his sleeves, but his characters could use a little more ingenuity. The show would also improve with something to connect the characters together or by shifting the focus to developing a couple a bit more. Instead the show that consists of flashes of monologues as mismatched as socks and sandals. The show needs to build up to a climax of some kind, or create more flow in his sequence.
If you enjoy a people tapestry you will like the show Kieran Hodgson has put together for you. His characters have plenty to tell you about their lives, throwing in jokes with a political and economical theme: Annual Percentage Rates, the Alternate Voting system, embezzlement, a banker’s sales drivel.
It is a lovely venue at the back of the Voodoo Rooms and if you feel like watching a Scottish conductor berating his orchestra, a Mansfield market seller talking about his lovely big dogs and a Vicar moaning about his cat’s murder on Palm Sunday, this show is for you.
