Lonely it may be, author Anthony Neilson showed that life can also be wondrous with loneliness sometimes a small price to pay for its funny absurdities through Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness. Swindon-based Darkroom Theatre Company readapted Neilson’s melodrama, which is based on Gant’s last travelling show portraying tragic tales of human abnormality as well as a humorous insight into loneliness. A cast of four were dynamically able to portray three short stories based in 1801 that demonstrated the willingness of a human’s heart to continue with a life which, as Gant concludes, only exists with both love and pain. As a small theatre company this was a great choice in plays - the meta nature of Gant’s exploration into storytelling, actors and performances offered insight into the struggle that performers and production companies still face today. Although not as farcical as I might have imagined, Darkroom paid tribute to this tale of wonder through fabulous on-stage chemistry, dark humour, quick wit, and a grotesquely impressive use of puss-filled props. The amateur nature of the production - whether intentional or not - worked as a strength here. The pop up stage constructed above the Wyvern Theatre’s main auditorium really encapsulated the on-the-go aesthetic of the Vicrotian travelling show. The weakness here was only that a lower stage, with many scenes acted sat down, distorted the view of the performance itself. Hindsight being a wonderful thing, laughs were still echoing throughout the audience. For a play about loneliness it was wonderfully heart-warming.