Clarissa and Barry
(a cat's chorus and a dog's marriage)

The good citizens of our mythical Cotswold village of Upper Marsh are no strangers to bawdy language, dark farmyard humour and horseplay. They are plebeian country folk for whom time seems to have stood still as daily they use their native cunning to make sense of the vicissitudes of life and living. Their bucolic idyll can sometimes find itself at odds with the sacred cow of political correctness but good fun, high comedy and caricature puncture the absurdities of life, confusing even the forces of Law and Order.

Explaining too much of the plot will spoil the fun, so it's best for you to pick up the story line as you go along. All you need to know is that the two central characters are Clarissa and Barry.

Clarissa, a minor psychotic, quasi-religious mother-in-law is intent on performing a 'castrato' procedure on Barry, her lecherous priapically over-endowed son-in-law. By a quirk of the roulette wheel of life he finds himself promoted to the rank of Funeral Director and elected as Town Cryer of the sexiest village in 'Ye Merry Olde England'.

Following his forced marriage our errant hero Bazza (sorry Barry) is soon struggling with the perplexities of importing a dead body from France in a broken down booze ladened Transit Van and the subsequent difficulty of keeping control of a pair of rampant funeral stallions. Their rude agricultural 'handbrake' charm goes viral on the Internet and his newly acquired Victorian Horse Drawn Funeral and Wedding Processional services business takes off!

As our farce unfolds the everyday events in the lives of these simple country folk will confirm a view long held by foreigners, that British humour is obsessed with functions of the lower body. This is a silly non-Pc romp through the surreal 'reality' of middle England in the second half of the twentieth century. Enjoy its great sense of the ridiculous and savage fun.