A new comedy show is coming to the Isle of Wight's Quay Arts, on October 20 and 21.

Minghella Theatre will be the setting for Past Tents, starring multi award-winning writers and actors David J. Keogh and Seth Jones.

Past Tents is the story of two desperate people at the end of their tent ropes, forced into each other’s company. It is about life, death and how people really need to talk more about the things they are going through!

When Alan’s (Seth’s) car crashes in the middle of nowhere, he hopes his bad day (which started with his wife leaving him) can’t get any worse… and of course it does.

After trudging through the muddy countryside, he comes across a campsite run by the rather eccentric Virgil (Mark Keegan). With no other options and no signal on his phone, he has no choice but to stay the night.

Unfortunately for Alan there’s only one plot left, in-between a dog-poo bin and the rather annoying Justin (David Keogh).

While this is a comedy, the intent of this play is to help spread the message of men’s (and others) mental health issues and help people with issues such as suicide/toxic masculinity/grief/depression/neurodivergence and illness.