Cyrus Bezyan: Interrogates Inanimate Objects For About One Hour

3 May 2013 | 10:56 am | Alex Wilson

No matter how nonsensical his ‘interrogations’ got, Bezyan’s show is held together by his incisive, whimsical commentary about modern life’s obsession with commodities.

Cyrus Bezyan's show narrates his fantasy as a down-and-out gumshoe in the Object City Police Department who is investigating the murder of white sock, surrounded by an array of everyday items: a pepper grinder, a shopping trolley, a glass of cranberry juice.

No matter how nonsensical his 'interrogations' got, Bezyan's show is held together by his incisive, whimsical commentary about modern life's obsession with commodities. He recalled the reigning king of anti-comedy, the UK's Stewart Lee, through his use of callbacks, repetition and his deadpan dismantling of our ingrained ideas about what one-man comedy should look like.

Unfortunately, some of this dismantling was due to unwelcome technical difficulties and Bezyan's sometimes butterfingered struggles with the plethora of objects required to bring his show to life. Having said this, this talented young comic earned plenty of raucous gut entirely on his own steam.