Sex, death and cannibalism permeate a topsy-turvy world brimming with weird and fantastical stories. The Summer Tour is jam-packed full of trivia to tickle, stories to amaze and desperate despair to make even the saddest life seem worth living. Yarns you've never heard the likes of are spun in a far-flung bar where a dangerously unhinged barman portends great woe.
Nonsense heaped upon absurdity elicits laughter if done right and the Footlights team certainly have the formula. The memories and events in Today Of All Days have this knack of raising all life's most important questions yet answering none.
Ed Weeks, barman psychopath, general nice guy and lover, is strong throughout while Tom Bell and Guy Morgan recall Palin and Gilliam. Suicidal Marcus (Dan Stevens) and Ruth Pickett (obligatory beauty) wrap their anguish, real and ridiculous, round a normal day's trading in the watering hole at the elbow-end of nowhere.
There is going to be trouble, but also a fantastic night of clowning around from a strong cast who will all be all right in the end. Or will they?