Mark Allen’s Go Slow

On entering the venue, you might find Mark Allen sitting doing a crossword and asking audience members to help him by suggesting alternative words. This creates a relaxed vibe and good rapport right from the start. Once everyone is settled in, Mark gives a background to his show. Apparently a couple of months ago he found that he had started living at a ridiculously hectic pace, and decided to see what would happen if he slowed down for one month.
This is an extremely funny account of what happens when you decide to live life slowly, switch off your mobile phone, abandon Facebook and email, and use buses instead of tubes. The audience falls about laughing at the reaction of Mark’s friends (who can no longer email him to invite him out – now having to try and reach him on his home land-line), family, and poor wife, as they are subjected to his new way life, the way it used to be less than two decades ago. Not only is this an entertaining show, it makes a person wonder how much has actually changed in such a short space of time, and how accustomed people have become to the fast pace of the electronic age.
Is it even possible to live slowly anymore? Go see Mark’s Go Slow and you will find out in this entertaining hour (and a half).

4/5

Sandi Hunter