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Theatre: Way Out West

Way Out West, by Paul Hodson (Meeting Joe Strummer; Teenage Kicks; Fever Pitch; Don't Shoot The Clowns) is a new play combining side-splitting comedy with heart-rending melancholy and ending with a very funny dance. What more could you want!

Two strangers meet in a busy bar.... and then it stops being normal.

Peter is convinced that he has met Simon somewhere before; Simon totally denies it. Pints are drunk; conversation covers the creation of the universe, the meaning of happiness, the chemical construction of pork scratchings and how they seem to know more about each other than complete strangers could, or should. And they both seem to recollect dreams in which they met Laurel and Hardy and...each other.

As the alcohol kicks in Simon and Peter find themselves lurching towards an unnerving philosophical and spiritual world, where it becomes a distinct possibility that they are Laurel and Hardy reincarnated?

But that's simply laughable, absurd and beyond comprehension isn't it?

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