Phil Dunning @ Pleasance Courtyard

Welcoming the audience into his world, Dunning introduces us to the show’s very loose storyline: that being the seedy cabaret bar House of Pigs, in which the show is set, facing closure and replacement by corporate chain The Slug & Arsehole.

Performing under numerous personas throughout the show between guiding the audience through his attempts to save the House of Pigs, Dunning’s impressions will have you amused but also confused. He isn’t lying when he says the storyline here is loose and the show reaches an abrupt end, without any explanation as to the fate of the House of Pigs.

A part cabaret, part character and part sketch show, it is also surrealist comedy on steroids, with added musical interludes. There's lots of the weird and wonderful going on, but Dunning struggles to navigate his way through. It is a hit and miss show that leaves more questions than answers, although maybe that is the point. 

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Phil Dunning: The House of Pigs, Pleasance Courtyard (Below), until 27 Aug (not 14), 11pm, £6-9