Bewilderness

Synopsis

A comedy about two men down the back of a sofa. Holding an impromptu seance to kill time during a power cut, Hamish and Sean are flabbergasted when a voice, claiming to be the father they never met, calls to them from the back of the sofa. Putting natural scepticism aside, the two men slip between the cushions and disappear into a terrifying upholstered underworld....This epic comic odyssey of impossible tasks could be described as a fusion of Morecambe and Wise and Dante's Inferno. Whatever, it's unmissable!

Our Review:

4 May 2001

As far as many newspapers are concerned, Sean Foley and Hamish McColl, aka the right size, have an identity crisis on their hands. Does their work qualify as theatre or is it straight comedy? As for the rest of us, however, the question might as well be - does it really matter? Aside from editors, faced with the conundrum of which of their reviewers to send, nobody cares when they're laughing. Or do they?

In Bewilderness, the duo have followed their award-winning Do You Come Here Often, about two men stuck in a bathroom for 25 years, with a similarly absurdist concoction about two men trapped in another hinterland - down the back of a sofa. There's a chance for one of them to escape the "upholstered underworld" with long-time captive Freddie Jones. But who will be the lucky fellow?

McColl plays an uptight lawyer/weekend warrior to Foley's genial ice cream van driver whose family has recently deserted him for overuse of the word "fantasti...

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Latest User Review

USER: Whatsonstage.com - 9 May 2001:

I'd never heard of or seen any of these pair's work before either and thought it was hilarious, definately worth a visit - some fantastic one liners and very cleverly done!...

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