Paperweight A small space in George Street’s Assembly Rooms is transformed into an office for two workers and their collections of drawing pins and teabags.

Here, sitting on top of cardboard boxes we discovered one of the most peculiar plays at this year’s festival: Paperweight. During the next hour the audience witnesses the tomfoolery of the two actors as they lampoon dull office work.

Paperweight embraces the conceptual tradition of Théatre de l’Absurde by depicting meaningless administrative tasks and bringing them to a mind-blowing level of parody.

It is a surprising, comical and experimental performance. The spatial and verbal interaction between the audience and the actors confers to the play its particular intensity.

It is with this staggering intensity that the audience leaves the office.

Benoît Geers and Edward Johnson

Paperweight is on at the Assembly Rooms 17:00 until the 24th August.

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