A snake will always find a way in. And he has. We’ve been sleeping so long that he’s had a feast… And this snake has been devouring them all whilst you and I are asleep in the next room. We’ve been standing on their tiny bones the entire time.
With unseen ‘little mouths’ and the belching fumes of the local refinery as a backdrop, we find ourselves in the beguiling world of Ma and Pa who spend their time exchanging extraordinary and fantastic stories…until suddenly there is a knock at the door…
While challenging, McCormick’s work is always creative and utterly captivating.
A wonderfully compact story with a great deal of intrigue and suspense.
Challenges aside, the gallows humour is delivered with great success by the brilliant cast, and many of the lines are well crafted to maximise hilarity, keeping the audience laughing throughout.
A living comic strip that is both brutal and troublingly hilarious.
Ma, Pa And The Little Mouths offers a memorable 70 minutes of comedy and nightmare; and a glimpse of a domestic madness that seems both utterly bizarre, and – in the age of Trump and Putin –strangely familiar.
Surrealism and wit abound in Martin McCormick's esoteric domestic comedy.
A delightfully discomfiting work of absurdism.
Bleakly comic and thoroughly unpredictable.
It's a dark, funny, often surreal and at times excessively absurd play, which initially lacks momentum but soon builds to an uncomfortable crescendo as stories of past and present crash together, and little mouths appear in more places than you might expect.
McCormick’s crazy, comic, disturbing yet compelling piece.
Like the elusive snake, this is a play whose meaning and import is difficult to grasp, yet whose impact remains long after it has finished.
Martin McCormick--Ma, Pa and the Little Mouths
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Thursday May 3, 2018, until Saturday May 12, 2018. More info: www.tron.co.uk
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Wednesday May 16, 2018, until Saturday May 19, 2018. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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