 Have you
ever been in a conga line and suddenly thought "What on earth am I doing?". Or
questioned why normally mild-mannered accountants turn into rage-addled loons when they're
in a football crowd? Maybe you've wondered why otherwise respectable young ladies
transform into bawdy cackle-hags when they're part of a hen night? Well it's exactly this
sort of nonsense that Mark Allen will explore in his new solo stand-up show Mob Logic. In the follow-up to his hugely successful 2006 show Quite Good Britain, Mark
looks at what makes humans behave differently when they're part a crowd and tries to get
to the bottom of this frankly ridiculous behaviour. Is it a deep-seated biological impulse
inherited from thousands of years of evolution, is it the result of complex social
stimuli, or is it simply a lot of people showing off?
Mob Logic is Mark's second solo stand up show. In 2006, he
performed Mark Allen's Quite Good Britain ("a great example of what the Fringe should
be about" - Time Out) in London, Edinburgh, Brighton, Manchester and Washington DC.
In May 2007, to coincide with the 300th anniversary of Great Britain, Mark performed an
updated version of Quite Good Britain for a sell out four-night run at the Hen and
Chickens Theatre, London.
Mark has been writing and performing comedy for over eight
years and performs regularly on the UK comedy circuit. His TV writing credits include
pilots for Talkback Productions and the BBC, as well as having several comedy sketches
screened on the last two series of ITV1's 'Shoot the Writers'. Bully for him.
"Witty and absorbing" (Time Out) |
