The one-man show begins with Patrick, neat in black jeans, black jacket and black Chelsea boots, addressing the fourth wall from a simple dining chair. The walls are balck as his clothes. We gather quickly that the Dead House - not a phrase the mourner enjoys - refers to the place where the deceased lies before making his trip to the graveyard.

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Patrick eventually leaves his seat and walks us about the house. In the bathroom he encounters the dead man's toothbrush. Elsewhere he comes across a traditional barrel-shaped caravan and consider where he came from and where he is going.

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The performer isbest known as a stand-up comic, and much that ismemorable in The Dead House could be filed under Observational Humour. Who from this country will not recognise his economic sketch of a domestic funeral? The men are too proud to show emotion. The women gather blackly "like crows" around the coffin.