There's a time-honoured tradition of actors giving themselves both a job and a showcase by writing a monologue, and the latest is Thomas Pickles, a young actor who appeared in the RSC's 2012
Merry Wives of Windsor (half of whose cast seem to have been there tonight in support.) He performs
Dead Party Animals, in which a teenage boy recounts a Friday night out in his small Northern town: from trimming his pubes shorter than he'd intended, to going to a club with his mates, right through to the consequences, of vomiting and hangovers. A thread that runs through the whole night is Emma, the sister of one of his friends and the reason he went out in the first place. As he tells us of his sweet attempts to grab her attention, though, there's some details he's keeping from the audience.
