Moon the Loon deals with the troubled life of Keith Moon, drummer of The Who, his desperate need to be the centre of attention, and the problems this causes for his wife Kim, his daughter and assistant Neil. "I've spent half my life trying to escape being ordinary," he tells Kim, who longs to spend some time as just an ordinary family.
Centring around an incident when he was asked to open a new disco, when he accidentally kills Neil, and a single session with a psychiatrist to which he is sent by the band, the play is structurally quite complex, comprising straight narrative, direct addressing of the audience, flashback and glimpses of what is going on in his head. This could be confusing, given the technical limitations the typically Fringe ten minute get-in imposes, but the piece is well written and the actors accomplished and it actually works very well.
The portrait that emerges is of a man who is driven and totally self-centred but strangely likable. A good piece of writing, well performed by a cast of three.