With the new CEO, Diana Jones (Kia Pope) now leading the Marketing company changes and job losses are inevitable as they want to make their mark on the company. Marketing managers Timothy Davies (John Goodrum) and Brian Stevens (David Martin) work together one last time to see which one of them will keep their job.
As It Comes! is a brand-new comedy farce set over three scenes, taking place over two working days in the office. Potentially it could be insight into the world of advertising marketing and the work that goes on behind the scenes of the catchy advertising slogans. I don’t have any experience in this industry to know whether it is or not.
Jilly Jenkins (Karen Henson) delivers the bad news to the pair via email and the managers aren’t sure what she means by “cutting the fat”. She’s not overly confident in the pair’s ability to deliver the last job. However, she is far too interested in chasing after Arun Anthony (Pavan Maru) in an attempt to go out for a drink to give the job too much thought.
Some of the farcical scenes reminded me of watching the scene in Fawlty Towers when they are desperately trying not to “mention the war” and fail miserably when Brian is attempting to convince Diana, very “badly” that is, that he is Timothy! Especially when a good redundancy package starts to be discussed by Diana.
Rumpus Theatre Company has created a good old-fashioned comedy farce. The style of play that you don’t see performed on smaller stages very often. Done correctly they are very entertaining and funny, which As It Comes! manages to live up to and the response from the audience confirmed this.
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Three Stars.
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