Blog: A Three Thing Day

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Last Thursday I went to distant Crystal Palace to see a Work In Progress performance of Mr Ben Moor's new show A Three Thing Day. Executive summary: it was ACE.

The performance was taking place at The Bookseller Crow bookshop which I have often heard about but never been to, and it turns out that this is in large part due to the fact that it is FLIPPING MILES AWAY. It was all fine getting to Crystal Palace station but then TfL decided to send me on a KRAZY and also SPOOKY route along deserted streets and through a dark and misty abandoned playground what was like something off one of those Eerie Post-Apocalyptic Games that they now make award-winning streaming shows out of, before making me walk up a BASICALLY VERTICAL hill.

I was thus a bit flustered when I arrived and so was grateful of a) a refreshing FREE BEER and b) the company of Mr Dave Green, a fellow survivor of The Early Internt and all-round delightful chap.

Very soon it was time for the show and, like all of Ben's shows, it was a LUXURIOUS hour of WORDS and IDEAS and BEAUTIFUL JUXTOPOSITIONS. As ever there were SO MANY thoughts in it that after a while you have to just resign yourself to not getting all of it first time around - Ben does BOOKS of his shows so that you can get all the bits you missed in the live environment, and they are always entirely excellent. I await the release of this one eagerly!

This was especially the case this time around as there's a section towards the end where another character tells a story AT SPEED so it feels like you are riding down an extremly long LOG FLUME of IDEAS being bashed and splashed by them all the way down. Also, as ever, the ONSLAUGHT of IDEAS tends to rewire the BRANE a bit, so for about an hour afterwards it feels like everyone else is talking in Ben-speak, so you're looking for extra meanings and puns in EVERYTHING, and also trying to do it yourself!

Luckily for me I was still in the company of Dave who did his transformation into Glittering Society Host and went around introducing everyone to each other, and this transferred over the road to a handy PUB where we were able to congratulate Ben on yet another fantastic show. This one is, I think, going to be TOURING around and then going to The Edinburgh Fringe, so if you get a chance to see it I would HIGHLY recommend going at least ONCE, if not more!

posted 4/2/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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