A Night To Dismember

Wil Greenway is, quite possibly, the king of Hyperbole. Greenway is half of the award-winning duo The Lounge Room Confabulators and A Night To Dismember is his solo debut. Greenway is a talented storyteller and performer, and kept the audience with him no matter how outlandish the narrative got. In A Night To Dismember, he leads us through a dark and bizarre world that includes a talking asteroid, shape-shifting space cheese, a girlfriend-stealing shark and a quad bike made entirely out of rabbits. Greenway's character made it into impossible situations and, just when you were thinking it couldn't get any weirder, he would throw something at you from completely left of field. It does take a little while to get accustomed to Greenway's style and the conventions of the world he creates, but the set-ups you are given in the first half really pay off in the second. The central character is preoccupied with essentially “teenage” problems like disconnected parents, trying to win back his ex-girlfriend, wanting to be cool and becoming a man, even as he deals with losing his arms (more than once) and befriends a fallen asteroid. It is this character's normality that grounds the madcap adventure that unfolds and makes Greenway's bizarre and exciting world convincing. A stellar storyteller.

Running at The Lithuanian Club until Saturday 13 October