The Big One

The Big One is a pub comedy in every sense of the word. A very broad knockabout Australian farce but like all the best comedy – with a strong air of truth. It’s about two struggling inner-city actors – Ken Lambert and his best friend, Lenny Brown – who make it all the way from their local pub to the big time – which in this case happens to be the Savannah plains of West Africa and the set of “Flamingo Dawn”. There’s a neurotic Hollywood director – Max McCoy, a beautiful local starlet – Penny Lawrence, a smarmy leading man – Clive Pearce, a crazy catering director – Burte Flanders and the hero of the play – the crafty barmaid – Henry Landon. Similar in style to Jez Butterworth’s “Mojo” The Big One is a couple of hours of crazy, cheap to produce, fun for audiences and actors.