The Latch Key Group (Amos Phillips, Jordan Lee and Dylan Watson) present a hilarious look at how the media affects us in A Son of Your Own. When Lloyd and Erma decide to ‘adopt out’ their 24-year-old son Brian, they start a nation-wide craze that makes it fashionable to adopt out your children.

Humourously examining the way publicity and public opinion affects our decisions, these three talented comedians examine Brian’s story as other kids get the same treatment and people start rallying against ‘Mature Aged Adoption’. The comedic performances are excellent, not to mention a variety of character personas complete with foreign accents. Cutting from live theatricals to footage of pre-recorded interviews, it follows Brian’s journey as he is shunted from a ‘Czechoslovakstanian’ family to a pair of tripped-out hippies, while his parents get on happily (mostly) without him, his neighbour Des lives in his own weird world, and a crazy Fairy Godmother appears now and again attempting to guide Brian on his ‘path’.

With the three actors switching flawlessly between characters there is never a dull moment, even until the climax where everything is resolved and all the ‘important moral issues or something like it’ come to the fore. A hilarious satirical show and social commentary combined’not to be missed.

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