THE surreal comedy of Monty Python inspired Clunk, a play about two women and an incoherent male who live together but can’t quite work out why.

Directed by Liverpool-born Andrew Gledhill, it follows the daily drudgery of the three characters, who are struggling to engage with a world that baffles them.

The radio is broken, another mysterious relative has died and there’s a parcel on the step.

With an informal comedic style, set off by surreal dream sequences, it is a unique piece of theatre that its creators, The Suitcase Ensemble, say will be enjoyed by fans of comedy, puppetry, and anyone who likes a good existential ponder: “I didn’t grow up seeing theatre at all, and so in many ways my chief influences are from radio and TV comedy,” says Gledhill.

“Like Monty Python, The Goons and The Young Ones, Clunk tells a consistent tale but also unfolds like a stream of consciousness – and within that tradition Clunk is a hugely accessible comedy at the same time as being utterly absurd and fantastical.”

Following a successful premiere in June, 2009, the show has been given additional visual and puppet direction by Liz Walker, of the world- renowned surreal puppet company, Faulty Optic.

CLUNK is at the Unity theatre, Liverpool, on March 12 and 13.