Jamie McCaskill in plaid shirt for The moa showThe Junc­tion Hotel is pub in rur­al Thames. It’s fairly typ­ic­al– a bar, a dart board, a smoking area, the reg­u­lars. There’s Henry Hikoi from Ngati Pukeko, Bri­an Tritt who’s in every day, and Car­mi­chael. When the three of them start drink­ing togeth­er and talk­ing about the moa in the hills they wake up in a very strange place. Then everything goes a bit weird…

Jam­ie McCaskill is the solo per­former in this ‘sur­real adult adven­ture story.’  He cre­ates clearly defined char­ac­ters with their own man­ner­isms and voices. This is import­ant as there’s quite a bit of fast paced char­ac­ter chan­ging. The script devised by McCaskill and Dir­ect­or Craig Geenty is funny, absurd, and deftly avoids a sen­ti­ment­al end­ing by keep­ing the char­ac­ters real. It also includes ref­er­ences to nar­cot­ics and inap­pro­pri­ate bird/human inter­ac­tion.

A fun start to the Com­edy Fest­iv­al.