Fickle Finger of Fate opens in the Fortune Theatre Studio tonight, after winning the Best in Fringe award at the recent Wellington festival.
The show comprises two physical comedy solo performances by Wellington comics Jen McArthur and Thom Monckton.
The first half, Echolalia, timeclocks a woman who is desperate for work and preparing for a job interview.
"It's about a woman trying to get a job, but she has no social skills," McArthur said yesterday.
"It is also about social taboos and makes you look at social niceties in a different context.
"It's about finding what's funny in you and putting it out there. People relate to that."
In contrast, Moving Stationery is a comedy of errors about a man who has just got a job.
However, he believes everything, from the lift to the office stationery, is conspiring to sabotage him.
"It's about the annoying small frustrations of everyday life. Soul-destroying things, like trying to find the end of the Sellotape roll," Monckton said yesterday.
"It's a physical comedy with contemporary clowning; sort of like Charlie Chaplin meets Mr Bean." Monckton conceived Moving Stationery while at an artist's residence in, of all places, Finland.
Described as "uncontrollably funny" by the Helsinki Times.
And that's the Finnish.
