Who Here’s Lost? is a roadtrip of the soul taken by two oddballs, finding connection between each other and our peculiar country. It’s a story about what we value as we go along, and how we choose to present it to ourselves and others. The characters travel between strange shops and museums, through family histories and retellings yet to come. They encounter a children’s party with the oddest games (‘Praise the Potato’?) and a novel that features a fire alarm drill which interrupts the action and leaves the characters mulling outside in a carpark for twenty pages.
Cryptic and mysterious and surreal and surprising, the piece is laugh-out-loud funny one moment, thoughtful and delicate the next with a life-affirming ending. Always original, always heartful, Ben Moor’s shows are sometimes difficult to describe, but impossible to forget.
Who Here’s Lost? was nominated for Best Spoken Word at the 2021 Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.
Ben Moor is a highly regarded writer-performer, having created strikingly original work for the stage since 1993, and acted in numerous screen projects. His ‘stand-up theatre’ pieces place universal themes in bizarre and funny landscapes; his writing having been compared to authors as diverse as Lewis Carroll and Thomas Pynchon.