What I liked
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What I didn't like
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My overall impression
The performer has immense skill and facility with his physicality. And most of all, he’s not afraid to cut the fool in the honored black comedic tradition of “muggin’” – which is not at all to be taken lightly because we are experiencing the body of a black man. Coolie is very much in a lineage of black performers who have served up their African heads, arms, and ass in bold and distinctive ways. The fact that this artist is New Orleans born is no insignificant aside. Byron Collie is Jazz. He’s the ‘Wildman’, and at times he is shocking. The writing is a jazzy mix… There’s hyperbolic elements within the pathos of his life as Black (Actor) in America; and this was a challenge to get inside of: what was real experience? Or, is it the feeling of experience?
