Come and see the birth of a true modern jester, a voice for the people. The Man is a punchy and surreal atomisation of the shadowy controlling forces that shape our modern world. A lone vigilante, The Man ploughs through sacred cows like an allegorical abattoir, doing for preconceptions what battering rams do for doors.
It was high noon on a hot summer’s day at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park. Some say they saw a hysterical crowd pulling a shining humanoid through a tear in the fabric of reality. Others insist that it looked considerably closer to a madman, dressed in rubber, crawling out from behind a bin. What followed left many speechless.
For a world saturated with characters from comics, a comic has created a character…
In a backlash of creative frustration and feeling disillusioned with the direction he felt standup was going, a veteran circuit comedian has unleashed an alter ego that stands alone like a mad vigilante torn straight from the pages of its own graphic novel.
Sheathed in rubber, The Man is a plastic figure for a plastic world.
With dystopian undertones reminiscent of the 2000 AD comics, The Man is a bizarre, real world comedic avatar built from trickster tropes and pop culture imagery mashing up everything from a Legoland joker to the Clockwork Orange misfit. But there is a method to the madness as The Man rises over the festival landscape as a new and unique beacon of hilarious dissent.
VENUE: The Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2LR
DATES: 5th – 30th August (no show 6th or 17th)
TIME: 10:30pm – 11:30pm
TICKET PRICES: £8 – £10
BOX OFFICE: http://www.arfringe.com/show/1917/the_man / 0131 226 0000
More information: http://www.hail2theman.com/
Twitter: @hail2THEMAN
Submitted by Adam Wilson
