It's been 6 years since Coombs Marr last performed in the persona of Dave, a try-hard standup comedian. In his last show, "Trigger Warning", Dave attempted to widen his skills as a mime only to hit his head on an invisible glass celing in an invisible glass box, and slip into a coma until now. He's back to look at what's happened to the world in the last half dozen years, and to rant semi-inchoerently about cancel culture.
Of coure, behind Dave, the idiot-savant standup, is Zoe Coombs Marr, the post-modernist lesbian with more than a few ideas of her own to get into. After two previous shows, Marr has clearly developed a sideways affection for Dave - his incompetence only ever really hurts himself, and ultimately in this show he manages to make a breakthrough that means he's not standing in the way of his own joy any more. There's a clear intellegence and well-formed structure to this piece that means even at the most out-there the show is clearly something that's been thought about and knows where it's going. It's provocative, clever and delightfully full of nonsense, beauty and occasional vomit.
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