Not the nice sort, like you had when you were a kid. These are terrible people, and he knows it. But the ideas they’re coming up with for his failing show are terrific.

And is it possible that people aren’t all as bad as they seem? Or is that one idea that really is too controversial for mainstream entertainment?

Imaginary Friends is award-winning writer-performer Daniel Bye’s first solo show for seven years and it appeared at The Beacon in Cliffe Castle Park for a wild hallucinatory ride through the looking glass of twenty-first century culture.

Daniel is a theatre maker from Middlesbrough, now based in Lancaster. Touring work as writer-performer includes Instructions for Border Crossing ; Going Viral , which won a Scotsman Fringe First at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe; and his show for young audiences Error 404 , which was commissioned and originally produced by Polka Theatre. Arthur , made with One Tenth Human, also won a Fringe First, at the Edinburgh Festival 2019.