Buckets, theatre review: a witty take on mortality ticks the right boxes

Buckets, as in bucket lists – those inventories of things we want to do before we die. Adam Barnard’s kaleidoscopic, darkly playful and witty piece muses on our human awareness that time is always running out in a series of some 30-odd, interconnected scenes that range from the absurdist and fantastical to sudden jabs of painfully direct feeling.