Not for the faint-hearted or those sensitive to smell, this avant garde theatre introduces new levels of the grotesque and the bizarre.
In an attempt to criticise capitalist, consumerist society, the three actors spend two hours building a rubbish tip of milk, wine, sausages, crisps, Coke, hamburgers and plastic faeces.
Just as controversial documentary Supersize Me looked at the effects a Big Mac diet can have on our bodies, this experimental work from Spanish group La Carniceria Teatro (butchery theatre) supposedly examines what eating junk food and living in a materialistic world does to our minds.
One actor remembers his first experience of McDonald's as a child. Another strips down to white pants and rolls around the food remnants in spasms before his pals get out a vacuum cleaner to suck up the vomitlike mixture from his body.
Another feeds a Coke bottle through a pressurised tube into his friend's behind. And so it goes on.
A striking tableaux of visually arresting moments ensues, each scene weirder and whackier than what went before.
You can't fault the imagination which goes into this highly conceptual art, except somehow there don't seem to be any real concepts involved.
Just as minds are persuaded to see gorgeous gowns on the naked emperor in the fairytale, the premise here seems to be "do the strangest things you canimagine and everyone will think you are saying something deep".
Sadly, I found the opposite.
Although I have sympathy for many of the anti-fast food and anti-war ideals this production is based on, nothing new or even interesting seems to be expressed. What we get instead is a re-hash of cliched values delivered through random rants and the belief that being absurd automatically makes you clever.
On until Saturday May 21. Starts 8pm, tickets cost £18/£12.50. Call 01273 709709.
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