The audience go from invited party guests to flies on the wall to unwilling participant in this show. As they enter the auditorium, the audience are greeted by a very hospitable host Matt (Piers Hunt) who is hosting a gathering to help his husband Lee (Mark Ota) forget about how unwell he has been recently. The guests: the very camp Chris (Gregory A Smith), the overly confident Darren (Luke Kelly), the slightly older Tom (Stephen Oswald), self-involved Paul (Ahd Tamimi) and his latest find at the gym, Josh (Carlton Venn).

Everything changes when Matt and Lee invite newcomers Darren and Josh into their home. All their preconceptions are challenged and things become rather saucy.

Sure, this party is fabulous if your idea of fabulous involves a night in with alcohol-inspired conversations about relationships, sexuality and coming to terms with it. This is a night in with excessive amounts of nudity, like a lot. A lot of full frontal nudity.

Indeed, these moments may sometimes provide feelings of discomfort but the humour is never lost. The more drunk these characters get, the more surreal the evening becomes and Lee always knows just the musical theatre reference to use in every situation, cleverly fitting them in throughout the play.

Despite the occasional awkwardness, this show definitely carries some charm. The topics of conversations reflect the kinds of conversations you would only have with your closest friends and although maybe these friends are more open than most, there is definitely some familiar conversation there. All the different characters sitting together in the same room proves for a very entertaining evening.

The dialogue does suddenly break into some very random choreography a few times in the show. The first time it happens it is quite sudden and confusing but by the final time, the choreography is quite stunning and it becomes clear how this fits into the story. The choreography either shows the audience the perspective of one character or simply helps fast forward the action on this rather short play.

With such a revealing show in such an intimate stage it must be incredibly challenging for the actors to not feel overly exposed with literally nowhere for them to hide. The style is quite conversationalist and there doesn’t seem to be any real plot. If Davies could put a bit more control in his script then this show has the potential to be really fabulous.

I Went to a Fabulous Party is playing at the King’s Head Theatre until 5 July. For tickets and more information, see the King’s Head Theatre website. Photo by Francis Loney.