Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco

Three young men wrestle with their demons in Gary Owen's unusual three-monologue debut, set in small-town Wales. The play begins in a similar tone to the recent Scottish comedy Smalltown, but culminates in something much darker than a zombie apocalypse.

While it is ultimately a satisfying watch, Crazy Gary demands a lot of investment from the audience during the first two scenes, which are offbeat and gently humorous without ever straying into hilarious.

Colin Little convinces as a hopeless hard man facing a drop in status, while Martin McCormick has enough great moments as the calamity-prone crooner Matthew D Melody to make up for his very eccentric version of a Welsh accent.

The best is saved for last, however, and Kristian Phillips is excellent as the missing link between the two preceding characters. A passionate, frustrated and at times cruel tirade against the suffocation of past and place is compellingly delivered, with no dialect distractions.

It is with this last piece of writing that Owen proves himself an exciting talent to watch. And while the piece as a whole is about carefully luring the audience into uncomfortable territory with light-hearted lines, it seems a shame that by the interval it remains unclear what play is really about, or is trying to say.