Spencer Jones (Dogs) – Pleasance Dome
‘You off to work Dad?’
‘Yeah son, I’m off to work.’
Observing the prop-strewn set one can only speculate on who has the tidiest room in the Jones household. It definitely won’t be a dull place. The title of tonight’s show is ‘Dogs’ and it’s not so much a theme as a frame on which to hang each chaotic episode.
Brilliant, illuminated chaos, the set a physical representation of our performer’s unruly, hilariously distracted mind. Surreal, and fascinating, too. Surveying this as we take our seats a geezer we’ve all encountered in the night-time economy blunders into our midst, apologising, ‘I’m a man with three pints’, cranking up the anxiety with the plea ‘I need a wee.’
With the fourth wall in ruins and the tone established, Jones arrives at his set, removes his ‘big heid’ an...
