This show from friends and collaborators Jack Stringer and Jordan Cottle is an object lesson in how to be utterly, brilliantly weird, and continue to be funny at the same time.
Image © Jack Stringer and Jordan Cottle
Their style is hard to describe; though they do have an ideal double-act look, in a very long tradition of double act looks, ie Jordan is very tall and very thin, and Jack is not as tall and is very not thin, but after that there’s nothing at all traditional in what they do.
It’s complicated and fast-fire stuff, obviously rehearsed to within milliseconds, with lots of oddball dance moves expertly coordinated with booming music and other sound and lighting effects – and totally unpredictable as to what they might do next.
There’s an exploration of the mystery (what mystery?) of the nature of the pine nut. How funny it is to be a trained assassin. Have they been assassinated at the close of the show? Is it the close of the show?
Why is there an occasional appearance of a confused and rather emotionally stressed Yorkshireman? None of it makes sense, and yet it all does.
This is a highly original, deeply left-field approach to comedy from two immensely skilled practitioners. Unforgettable.
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Reviewer: John Christopher Wood | Star rating: *****
