How do you get killed by lightning holding onto a cloth rope?  Why are we facing the end of the world from climate change when the men are dressed in monastical outfits and the preface says the play is set sometime between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries?  Why do they wear 20th century modern clothes underneath the habits?  Why is a giant flying fish likely to demolish a stone tower?  Why are mushrooms flourishing everywhere including on Clement (Luke Rollason)’s back?

I warmed more to Paul Adeyefa as Aspinall than Luke Rollason’s extremes of facial contortion betraying his stand up persona.  It is true when we are faced with death or long term illness or war that we seek some explanation.  One answer is a belief system, a religion that allows us to find comfort in an unknowable future.  Another, as illustrated in this play is superstition.  It may be that some will assert that belief systems are superstition.  Is there a logical explanation that in times of attack, the sound of bells alerted others and brought relief? Nowadays it is the alarms ringing from cars and premises to ward off transgressors and call for assistance. 

This is for me a difficult first play.