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In theory this is a play about a clown who’s preparing for a date by practicing a pre-scripted date scenario with an audience member. Under that, honestly really hilarious, bit of semi-improvisation, is an expose on body image and confidence. It is, towards the end, a strip show. But not in an overtly sexual kind of way.

If there’s one problem the play has, though, it’s that the pacing is a little slow. I think some of that comes from the improv segment, where it would be difficult to pace it much faster and still keep the audience member on stage connected to the plot.

I really enjoyed this, it was really fascinating to see the progression of the character as her clothes come off, and whatever technical issues were hit in this play didn’t diminish my feeling that it was really quite beautiful.

Tags: ****, Rachelle Fordyce