What I liked
A solid show in entertainment, craft, writing and direction.
What I didn't like
Solo shows, likewise personal stories, can occasionally be tough to watch or enjoy – but ‘Discovered’ fully embraces those challenges and creates an honest, relatable experience.
My overall impression
‘Discovered’ is emotionally raw, beautifully poetic, and brutally honest. In a biographical piece of taut and fast driving storytelling and theatre, Dufflyn’s solo-performance effortlessly transitions between altered states from her past to representing her maternal life force, one that she both embraces and is potentially afraid that she may one day become herself. The specificity and presence of her mother is so honest that at times you want to jump on stage to both embrace her and laugh with her. The poetic language and driving narrative is clearly a callback from Dufflyn’s days of performing with Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam.
