Just sit back and enjoy!

All right, this might appear to be a parodic take on 14th century England and its mores - Chaucerian euphemisms and affectation of chastity included - but it is a comedy so much at the service of its audience that not a tiniest gag or a quip will be allowed to slip past unnoticed.

Wide-eyed and thoroughly disarming, the threesome punctuate every sentence with child-like stares into the auditorium, thus managing to get away with just about anything, from utter cheesiness to glimpses of genius.

Their story - concerning a love triangle between a lord, his maid and a travelling minstrel infected by the plague - has one of the most bizarre endings in the world of comedy (read ‘death has come inside me’ in its contemporary mode). However, Piggy Nero and its director Cal McCrystal cast a whole new light on the notion that it is not what you tell but how you tell it. So, what starts out as a parody of medieval England journeys through an entire history of folk entertainment, featuring songs with trills, jigs, masks, Punch and Judy, video and mirror balls. Just sit back and enjoy!

Duska Radosavljevic, The Stage, 11th August 05