The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright

It's normally a sign of the most unbearable self-indulgence for any artist to write material on the pressures of fame. Fortunately, comedian and performance poet Luke Wright isn't that famous, which gives him an intriguing perspective on the subject. This show is all about Wright's ego and the all-consuming, corrosive influence it's had on his life, since he decided as a teenager that his life's goal was to become "loved by millions". After eight years of touring the poetry and comedy circuits, he's achieved a modicum of success, but it doesn't stop him obsessing over his public image. He talks of Googling his own name – surely a constant temptation for anyone remotely in the public eye – and discovering an army of people who seem to have it in for him, "like looking in a drawer that you thought had chocolate in it and finding that it's full of aggressive hate mail."

Wright's likeable and very funny patter is punctuated by performances of his poems, which have the rhythm and cadence of all performance poetry since time immemorial, but also the wit and insight so often missing from this most abused of genres. Some of the self-lacerating humour is truly hilarious, particularly when he artfully deconstructs an artless poem that he wrote when he was 15. And Wright's poignant conclusion, that at age 27 he's becoming "strangely at ease with normality" should strike a chord with anyone who's had to make the difficult transition from starry-eyed youth to comfortably average adulthood.