Smelling Pistakes at arts centre (From Bridgwater Mercury)

Smelling Pistakes at arts centre

8:00am Friday 5th March 2010 in

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A NEW physical comedy set in the bowels of a Russian governmental building is being performed at Bridgwater Arts Centre on Thursday, March 11.

The Dept of Smelling Pistakes is set in a forgotten office, where two civil servants jostle for power - one a puffed up bureaucrat in search of a job description, the other an unidentified inspector, the purpose of whose visit remains frighteningly vague.

Reluctant to commit to specific thought for fear of showing ignorance of the party line - which changes hourly - they make idle conversation out of which is extrapolated the deepest meaning, while their attempts at political correctness only result in grammatical incorrectness.

Mining its trademark vein of absurdist humour and taking inspiration from the likes of Gogol and Bulgakov, Publick Transport - of 20,000 Leagues Under the Office fame - presents the new comedy.

The show starts at 8pm. Tickets are £10, concessions £9 and members £7 from the box office on 01278-422700.