2018 Edinburgh Fringe

Steve Attridge presents Ron the Plumber Meets God-Cilla

Comedy with a lethal set of ratchets. Jokes hot from the porcelain with OCD deranged plumber Ron. Alarming suicides, traumatised French Poodles, exploding toilets, God disappearing, dating ballcocks and rabid Nazi bath taps. But as Ron says: with a mug of tea and a decent set of hardcore ratchets anything's possible.

One liners and deranged frontal lobes. Join him as he tries to solve the riddle of the singing voice in the pipes - is it a quirk of the u-bend? An existential mystery? Is it Cilla Black horribly reincarnated as a rabid creature blended from the great national sewage wastes and about to unleash a holocaust of bacteria on an unsuspecting populace?

As Ron says "Sewage - it's not everyone's cup of tea" but some warrior has to battle rusted pipes and wobbly ballcocks, and he's your man. He knows plumbing is a metaphor for life. As he says, grammar too is crucial to plumbing - the real difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.

Steve Attridge

Steve Attridge is a RTS winner 3 times, BAFTA nominee 3 times, and Writer's Guild Best Drama Award winner. He has completed 100 TV scripts, 8 films, 22 books and 9 stage plays. He's also worked as a performance poet with John Cooper Clarke.

He's a sensitive soul with his head in the clouds and his feet sloshily planted in the gutter. His crime novel The Natural Law went straight to Amazon's Number One Kindle bestseller lists.

Just back from the Cambodian jungle where he was volunteer working with rescue elephants, he's now busy writing another novel, preparing his Edinburgh show and circulating his play about Shakespeare and the Gunpowder Plot.

Steve says he made this Edinburgh show because he grew up with people like Ron and most of them are dead now - physically and culturally. "There is a working class type that existed until about 25 years ago that was geographically located, linguistically astute, part human being and part music hall act. But this is not a nostalgic show, it's alive and now and rude and celebratory."

Reviews of last year's show

"I was in awe of the linguistic gymnastics. The poetry of the script... invites you to exercise your imagination and feel a new appreciation for the elasticity of the English language. Dick in Space is a delightfully mysterious world..." - The Mumble Review (Triple 4 Stars)

" Dick Spacey...is what Tom Waits would be like as a stage character on amphetamines." - Stratford Herald