Tonk and Fozby, our protagonists, speak in a kind of jargony english mixed with kind of russian accents. Often it’s difficult to understand what words they’re speaking, but it’s always clear from context and action what’s going on. Adam Cope and Elliot James do a masterful job of conveying emotion and story through a blend of speech, action, and facial expressions, which is what you would expect out of a clown show.

Go see this. It’s entirely worth it.

At the same time, I can’t help but feel uncomfortable about making light of mental illness and the damage that can be inflicted by 9-5 drudgery on those who are mentally ill.

I had slightly higher hopes for this play given it’s written and directed by the team who did The Overnight last year, which was one of my absolute favorites of that year. I didn’t find this one nearly so creative or innovative.

Quite the opposite from The Overnight, where they maximized the use of 2 actors incredibly well, I felt this play really needed a fourth player to improve the interactions between the main three and the occasional fourth. The switching was never quite so obvious as it should have been, and always involved a main character leaving the stage when I wanted to have their take in it as well.