Edible Pets: The Farewell Tour

It's a story we all know - struggling musos not good enough to ever get a break, but desperate enough to be in a band that they'll play in the Bradman room at the Mordiallic Welcome Club fighting keno call outs and patrons that just want to hear Khe Sanh.

It's at such a gig that we're introduced to the Edible Pets, a middle aged acoustic rock duo who tell their history through flashbacks at their final gig.

The Edible Pets are Matt Dyktynski, a real-life theatre veteran who plays the bitter and cynical singer of this duo and Bang Mango Cools - the far more zen guitarist who is happy to sit and work on his unfinished opus while Matt unravels the duo's calamitous history.

Though there are some lazy jokes in the piece, Dyktynski's acting chops hit the right marks and the lack of a fourth wall makes it easy for the audience to go with the gags - the y2k jokes, the band's ill-conceived hip-hop phase and the world music festival with the very acid trip.