Three junior employees, thrust into a room for the night with one vague brief - to come up with a presentation to show the big bosses how the company can maximise it's profits over the next year. All from different backgrounds, different departments, with only one thing in common - their jobs are so low-level that none of them has much of an idea about what the vast organisation actually does.
Junk Theatre's absurdist take on corporate evil, and damage it does to the lives of the people it swallows, hits a lot of familiar targets, often with great clarity and accuracy. There's some overacting early on, as two of them try to delineate their stereotypes (posh girl handed it all to her, working class boy made good), but it settles down into some tense and sometimes moving situations. Plenty of laughs too. The script gets a bit clunky in the last five minutes, as they try to resolve their impossible situation, but that's a minor quibble.
While Ants wouldn't be high on my recommendations list, you certainly wouldn't have wasted your time going to see it.
Ants was on in the Space on the Mile, but their run has now ended.
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