You’re Alright. Camden People’s Theatre.

Twenty-something Charlie is not having a good day. Let go from her job she looks forward to an evening “getting steaming” with best buddy Andy. But Andy is running late and so Charlie is stuck in the Slug & Lettuce with her mate’s boyfriend, a tiresome “dickhead from Slough” called Sacha.

Sacha, who describes their job as “multi-tasking” has an epic night out planned, including silent cabaret, club karaoke, astrological cocktails, and a visit to a performance art rendition of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep delivered by a naked, sausage-wielding German dance troop. “Sausages are supposed to be cooked” opines Charlie, who thinks she may just have witnessed a sex crime.

“I hate the absolute hell that is your taste in everything” an increasingly rabid Charlie (Corrie McKenzie) hisses. Later she tells Sacha (Sam Burkett, who also wrote and choreographed the piece) “I strongly hate everything you say and do,” and it is easy to see why. Will this odd couple find anything to connect them as the evening rapidly turns sour? And maybe, just maybe, it is Charlie who is the real dickhead here.

Sam Burkett’s You’re Alright mashes up comic dialogue, monologue, contemporary dance, and physical comedy, set to a soundtrack that shifts easily between punk, funk, and piano. The mash-up just about manages to disguise a storyline that is as thin as a winter sapling.

McKenzie has charm as the put-upon Charlie, who soliloquises her antagonisms towards her unwanted companion with ever-increasing ferocity. Burkett is an engaging stage presence, and their choreography is good too, particularly in the duets that depicts the pair’s rain-soaked hikes from bar to unpalatable bar. The show packs in just enough laugh out loud gags. But at forty minutes You’re Alright somehow feels simultaneously a little long for what is, essentially, a single joke, and a little too short to get to know either character.

Writer and Director: Sam Burkett