PREVIEW – Robocop vs The Terminator vs Gabriel Featherstone
Reykjavik Fringe ‘Fringe of the Fringe’ Award nominee 2025, this new work from comedian Gabriel Featherstone catcilty titled Robocop vs The Terminator vs Gabriel Featherstone pitches itself somewhere between sci-fi parody, stand-up and end-of-the-world cabaret.
At its core, the premise is deliberately overblown: Robocop, the Terminator, and Featherstone himself, framed as ‘the last stand-up comedian alive after a nuclear war that wiped out 98% of life on Earth’, are set on a collision course in a staged battle to the death. It’s part dystopian satire, part genre mash-up, with a clear line in absurdist comedy. Certainly sounds unique.
Featherstone writes, performs, directs and even builds the props, giving the piece a lo-fi, DIY energy that sits comfortably within Fringe comedy traditions. Alongside the central concept, there’s space for more conventional stand-up, musical comedy detours and improvisational digressions, suggesting a show that is deliberately unstable in tone and structure.
There’s an obvious playfulness in the way it borrows from blockbuster film mythology, but also a strain of darker humour running through it, including deligthful themes of nuclear apocalypse, violence and cultural detritus reframed as entertainment. Winner of the Luke Rollason Memorial Bursary, this is very much a solo artist pushing scale through imagination rather than resources, which is often where Fringe comedy is at its most inventive.
Details
Robocop vs The Terminator vs Gabriel Featherstone plays at The Actors Theatre.
Venue: The Actors Theatre, 4 Prince’s Street, Brighton.
Tickets: Tickets are £10, £8 concessions with a 241 offer when purchased through Brighton Fringe.
Dates: Performances on 21 and 22 May at 7.30pm.
Accessibility: Assistance dogs welcome. Wheelchair accessible (check with box office for full access details including step-free access)
Age suitability: 18+ (restriction). Under 2s not permitted.
Content warnings:
Audience interaction / Strong language / Loud noises / References to drug/ alcohol misuse / Depictions and references to violence
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