ISH HE REAL? by Robin Marchal - 7.30pm, Monday 12 May Upstairs at the North London Tavern

Ish He Real? is comedy, farce, melodrama for Today. 

Life today. Who Controls? Drones, satellites, mobile phones, media ... and spirit. What is real?  What is between, between? I have to laugh.

Self-made billionaires, Denise & Dennis Taylor dance and sing, control their beautiful educated daughter, Isla - at age 20, give her a bonus of £3.2 million. World media will hear, promote their business! A multi-million-pound contract is to be signed, skyscrapers built over the ancient church/graveyard adjacent to their recently purchased mansion house in Essex. But work life has given Isla little time to live her own life - her child, aborted, her lover, disappeared, her only freedom is in thinking/dreams, imagination ... .

Does life ever die? Does everything evolve - become, over millions of years, fossils et al? Would suicide be her escape?Denise has not had time to see her old mother in decades - 'she's never praised me Dennis; what we have achieved; never kissed me; increasingly I keep seeing her, imagining her. A ghost? I know we pay for her Care-home but we must visit her ... before she dies."

Robin Marchal. Railway porter,  actor (Webber Douglas); York Theatre Royal; Other Reps, tours, West End; Equus NT; John Paul George Ringo ... & Bert; TV, Film. Writer. MA Distinction, University of Essex 2012. Play 'Stunning Meara', Wandsworth Arts Festival/Theatre503 - 2018; Etcetera Theatre + . Playlets; BBC Radio Schools +.