The Brewery, Bristol (Tue 20 Sept-Sat 1 Oct)

THEATRE It’s amazing what washes up on an island. An almost uninhabited island off the coast of Bournemouth – in this case, a Bournemouth overrun by Mormons – and in this case, Idiot Child have washed up girl twin Peter and boy twin Finnegan on it (and their friend David who is played by a coconut).

Oh what a special, special but deeply strange world they live in and hurrah!! we are allowed to visit it for an hour and the twins are giving us a guided tour! So, what do twins whose mummy and daddy died when they were 12 do all day, year in, year out in the tiny completely isolated world of their imagination?

Well, they do some very very unusual, worrying, mentalist and blackly twisted things, I can tell you. But I’m not going to tell you A SINGLE THING about the things they do or say, not about the shoes, nor the Rockpool of Death, or the fish-head, or the game of picky uppy putty inny or the predicting. I’m only going to tell you that I let myself down badly about halfway through by making snorty laughing noises for a long time, and felt that I hadn’t done it right, but I feel strongly that you should go and that there is every chance that you will do it right. (Rina Vergano)

Copyright Rina Vergano 2011

Pictures: copyright Chris Collier 2011