Interactive spoken-word comedy cabaret where the audience chooses the vibe of the performance.
Ben Macpherson brings Ben Macpherson Does Poems at Adults to Fisher Gate Point on Sunday 8 November, starting at 17:00. It's a spoken-word comedy cabaret that Macpherson has spent a couple of years developing at the Edinburgh Fringe and touring, and it's built around the audience calling the shots.
The format is straightforward: thirty numbers hang on the wall, each with two different vibes, and the room yells out what it wants to see — silly, sad, or even sexy. The set changes depending on what the crowd leans into, so the vibe of the night is something you help decide as it goes along.
Macpherson is a familiar face on Nottingham's comedy circuit, with regular spots at Club Wormhole and Apple of Discord. He draws on a background in sketch comedy and his work as a poet, citing the Two Ronnies, Roald Dahl and Spike Milligan as influences. Beyond the comedy, he's an immersive-theatre practitioner with Chronic Insanity and is currently developing Fat Gut, a show about plus-size male bodies in queer spaces.
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The performance is part of Wormhole Weekend, Club Wormhole's billed weekend of the country's best alternative comedy, staged as part of the Nottingham Comedy Festival. Fisher Gate Point is wheelchair accessible. Tickets are available in advance, with pay-what-you-want on the door, and the show starts at 17:00.
