Concrete Playground

Were I your mother I'd have only one piece of advice: do not enter the world of stand-up comedy. It is a scientifically-proven fact that the audience wants the comic to fail, because most humans are both sadistic and terrified of their own shortcomings. But what if the comic also wanted to fail? Would the cruel audience find it funny if failure, strangely, meant success?

Enter Brown Council, performance artists-turned-comedians (or vice-versa) and Big Show, their latest project at Locksmith Gallery. Manifesting as conical-capped Dunces, this quartet beats the notion of entertainment into grim submission, pushing the comedic drive to its limits in an endurance performance of escalating violence. Prepare to laugh, then cry, and finally realise how much of a jerk you are for wanting to torture fellow humans like this.

From 3pm on Saturday December 19 Locksmith are holding a Big Show Closing Party / Christmas Shindig in the gallery.