Funny, fast, witty but not appropriate for children.

Set in the back of a typical Adelaide pub on a small stage with seats set out to align the front of the stage and stools and couches around the fringes of the venue, Mark Butler makes his way around the crowd interacting with his audience. The audience was filled with adults, many with alcoholic beverages in hand, a typical pub show environment.

The show commences with Butler outlining his relationships and how they are greatly affected by grammar. Grammar sloths are his pet hate. It can be the division line between him liking a person and not liking them; and as the show progressed further and further into the depths of the grammatically correct mind and memories of Butler it appeared that his hate for people with bad grammar had become an obsessive compulsion.

Very witty, very English and very funny, Butler picks up on grammatical errors that some would glaze over without much notice. It is true that the habits of people can really make others tick, if it is bad grammar or people who waste their time bothering to pick up on it instead of just getting the drift of things and moving on, things get on peoples nerves.

So Mark was really trying to ask his audience, if you are a grammar nerd is it OK to dump a grammar sloth due to their bad grammar or will grammar nerds be lonely until matched with another grammar nerd?

His effort to explain just what was acceptable language and what wasn’t, made fun of both offenders and grammar nerds alike.

Mark made good references to the bad grammar and language in rap music and the new text messaging culture of the youth of today.

Stage wise it was just Mark onstage, no fancy lighting, music and no need for a crew or stage manager. The music played was music that was ridiculed for grammar slip ups and Mark relied on the interaction of the crowd to help with his choices when it came to the subject of grammar being an offence that is heart breaking.

Unfortunately Mark seemed to have glazed over the content of his show when labeling his show with a PG rating. This show had explicit sexual content with references to his past love affairs; dating sites, first date tips and the fine line between sexual assault and sexual advances, depending on the grammar and punctuation of the dates’ speech.

15+ would be a more suitable rating for the show and even so the content is not suitable for students in high school to be focusing on let alone primary school children.

Funny, fast, witty but not appropriate for children.

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