A Carpet, A Pony and A Monkey

Synopsis

Euro 2000 - The European Football Championships. Millionaire ticket tout Baz has blown it all on dot-com shares, so it's off to Belgium with his reluctant sidekick Tosser to get rid of 300 tickets for the England v. Germany game to a bunch of pissed-up Geordies. In 2000, Mike Packer followed the ticket touts to Euro 2000. This is the play he wrote specifically for The Bush about his experiences.

Our Review:

22 May 2002

If you're not an inveterate gambler, taking your seat for Mike Packer's A Carpet, A Pony and A Monkey can be daunting. The distributed glossary of terms - explaining all three titular expressions plus some dozen others - made me feel the need to cram as if preparing for an exam. In the first few minutes, my heart sunk as I frantically consulted my glossary in laymen confusion.

Thankfully, my panic was short-lived, for the trade lingo is a device that Packer uses only to top and tail his piece to ease us in and out of the alien world of the ticket tout, as embodied here by Baz and his surly sidekick Tosser.

Having lost his fortune in dotcom shares, Baz must hightail it to Belgium during Euro 2000 and try to shift 300 England v Germany tickets to hordes of pissed-up Geordies. Commissioned by The Bush two years ago, Packer himself travelled with touts to Euro 2000 and, while it helps - certainly with anticipating the dramatic tension - if you too can recall a ...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com - 12 April 2002:

i think this show was really good but you need pictures on the internet...

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