Celine Kuklowsky: Bed Boy (WIP)

From the very start, Celine Kuklowsky’s Bed Boy clearly demonstrates its potential. The show  has a solid base, but it perhaps suffers with issues that admittedly will resolve themselves with fluency and energy. One overarching theme of the hour is the fact that throughout their comedy, we can see the direction which Kuklowsky wants to go, how far they appear to be itching to take a joke, and how much they rein themselves in just as they are getting started. 

Pepper Spray & Protest

Singing in a large group and hearing other people sing is famously a great time always, and one of the great things about protests is that it gives people the opportunity to participate in something that is usually reserved for theatre kids and religion. Now we have our Defying Gravitys and Hadestowns and Hamiltons and RENTs of course, but these songs have been thoroughly claimed by theatre kids.

Nick Helm: No One Gets Out Alive

To use words like delightful, hilarious, immersive - despite being accurate -  would be to greatly undersell Nick Helm’s No One Gets Out Alive. The best descriptor would therefore be something along the lines of ‘what if a car crash was positive?’ in the way that the show itself is indescribably forceful and chaotic as well as the fact that we just simply can’t look away from Helm’s performance.

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