FOR those of you who missed the comedy act Garth Marenghi (Duke of Darkness) at the MAC, Birmingham, on Thursday, stop kicking yourselves. It was awful. Not just plain awful, but real fancy.
The wit - such as there was - lay in the piece's brevity - just over an hour, but at nearly £10 a throw the laughs - at least in one sense - weren't cheap.
The three-handed act parodies the shlock-horror novel with lashings of gusto but little finesse. Top British writer Garth, with the help of two assistants, acts out Netherhead - his latest and darkest work which takes him to Egypt, the dark side and a meeting with the Mind.
The closing part of the show threw up a few chuckles but by then I was wishing I'd stayed in and done something more worthwhile - like tidying my sock drawer.
The really frightening thing about Garth Marenghi was that it came trailing last year's Perrier Award title and a series of rave reviews. Sensibly, most people stayed away.
PW
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