PEOPLE’S preoccupation with measuring their life’s worth in money will be addressed in a provocative solo show coming to the Lighthouse next week.

How much is beauty worth? What will people pay for an air guitar on eBay? Can I have a glass of milk?

These urgent questions - and others – will be answered in the entertaining and occasionally shambolic show, The Price of Everything.

Self-styled ‘theatre maker’ Daniel Bye will take audiences on a whistle-stop tour of bizarre facts and extraordinary stories in a show which is part stand-up and part storytelling.

“I’ve long been fascinated by the creepy way in which economics has colonised all of our brains,” says Daniel.

“The only admissible arguments in public policy these days seem to be the economic ones. We’ve lost all ability to value things in any other way. Attempts to express other value systems are met with cynicism, or patronisation.”

“One of the things I think people enjoy about the show is that quantifying things as precisely as I do here is really absurd.”

The performance lecture is comic, provocative, interactive and a little bit sad.

Writer, director and entertainer, Daniel, creates theatre that is immediate, playful, surprising and engaged with the world we all live in.

He trained with Philippe Gaulier, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre Studio and in addition to his solo productions, he has made work for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Red Ladder and Pilot Theatre.

His work juggles comedy and tragedy, roughness and polish, truth and lies and also wrestles down big ideas about the world until they’re small enough to swallow.”I don’t create the work by sitting down at my desk and writing it down in advance of rehearsals,” says Daniel.

“It’s created on the rehearsal room floor. I suppose it’s a way of reflecting that the work happens in three dimensions, live, just like the way it is made; it’s not created in abstract in advance.

“Most of the content was developed out of a series of conversations between me and the show’s director, Dick Bonham. Every so often I’d say something funny or interesting, and Dick would say, ‘you should put that in the show’. The other 99% of what I said has been lost to history.”

The Price of Everything will be coming to Poole Lighthouse on February 6 and it will cost you £10.

For tickets visit: lighthousepoole.co.uk