We preview The Delightful Sausage ahead of the performance at Paines Plough Roundabout, Ordsall Park.
Surreal laughs from Yorkshire’s finest, meat-themed comedy duo.
The Paines Plough Roundabout is a truly magical performance space. An intimate, vivid in-the-round pop-up theatre. This space-ship style theatre lands in Ordsall Park from Thursday 6th – Sunday 9th September 2018. Along with comedy, spoken word and live music, Roundabout will bring the best in new writing from Georgia Christou, Simon Longman and Vinay Patel.
Island Town, written by Simon Longman is set in a dead-end town and tells a bittersweet story about friendship, hope and dreams of escape; BAFTA nominated Vinay Patel’s Sticks and Stones is an incisive satire on the modern condition and finding the right word, and families will love Georgia Christou’s How To Spot An Alien, a rip-roaring space odyssey suitable for space cadets aged five and up.
Produced by the Lowry, Roundabout also features a host of community events and comedy from Barbara Nice and The Delightful Sausage.
Our guest reviewer Gemma Hepworth visited Edinburgh Fringe and saw The Delightful Sausage at Monkey Barrel:
“It’s a madcap adventure through the crazed minds of two Yorkshire hopefuls who inexplicably expect their imaginary hamlet of Ickleton to be nominated as a city of culture.
What begins ostensibly as a village meeting of ‘P.W.I.C.S- Precinct of Wider Ickleton Community Saviours’, swiftly descends into a crazy mix of characters, audience interaction and abstract storytelling.
The purposeful lack of finesse, the superb OTT character costumes, absolutely bonkers content (adverts of pretend sponsors, songs, out of character interjections) and side-swipes at their craft and the fringe only serve highlight how much they understand their audience and how much this camaraderie builds empathy and humour. Like The Mighty Boosh but with humility!
I LOVED the daft-ness and delights of Delightful Sausage! I was laughing out loud for a good twenty minutes after walking out of the venue!”
The Delightful Sausage plays at Paines Plough Roundabout in Ordsall Park on Saturday 8th September 2018. Click here to find out more about the other events at Roundabout.