BEYOND - Unemployed. Finally.

My overall impression

I cannot imagine anything harder or scarier than what Heather “31 Jobs by the time she was 31” Dowling did last week in this show.

I was an actor and am a writer and as an actor on stage you usually have a script someone else wrote to work with and other actors to play off of. And even then it’s really hard to make a great play.

But imagine a blank stage, canvas, with no other actors, just you and the show you wrote and created for over an hour that’s really really really hard. But yet she did it and created something interesting and engrossing and naked and real and heartbreaking and fun all together. Talking about 31 jobs she had and her life in between while also playing countless other characters.

She set the degree of difficulty bar really high and more than succeeded. I loved this show as did the whole crowd who gave her a standing ovation at the end. I hope this show continues beyond fringe and finds the big audience and has the long run that it deserves. Well done.