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Hold Me Down

Jackie Yangyuen · Ages 18+ · United States of America

Content Warning One Person Show
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Review by DEREK MIRANDA

June 09, 2024
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What I liked

Felt very emotionally dynamic: heavy real parts mixed with laugh out loud lines mixed with slow, meditative parts. All the characters are so well-embodied. Music is great and captures the mood of a scene well. I liked the interstitial music too that reprised main melodies of the songs

What I didn't like

I think there are some volume issues when songs would start, possibly given performance wasn’t amplified. For example, there was a scene with a therapist which lead to a rock song tho the singing sounded quieter than the dialogue leading up to it

Sometimes when you’re singing while spinning, it sounded like you had shaky breath support so maybe you could practice or modify

My overall impression

Loved it! Feels like a culmination of music, storytelling, sex positivity, queerness and exploration

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