Jarrett, a veteran of the (unknown) trade, keeps telling young Sharkey that the “job will be revealed in due course”. The secretiveness of it all, as well as their Goodfellas style appearance, leads us to think that this will probably be a shifty business. Under the spotlight are Jarrett (Martin South) and Sharkey (Jack Hyland) talking about what we assume is some kind of mysterious job they are going to take part in. Suffice to say this play is about economic pressure, wages, and work. After dismissing “a galactic space lombax that has saved over 50 galaxies along with a robot named Clank” as an improbable definition for this show (what kind of play would that have been?), I went running towards an English dictionary. Luckily for this foreigner, apart from the heaven sent WordReference there’s another useful (albeit often improper) website called Urban Dictionary. I have to confess to the English reader that before seeing this play I didn’t know what ‘ratchet’ meant. Witty play with an absurdist influence which leaves the door open to multiple interpretations about work and labour relations.
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