What I liked
The videos that are played as interstitials are a welcome and awesome part of the show. Mitchell’s performance truly is fearless, which makes it fun and inviting. The music is great too. The theatre is a nice space for this kind of show.
What I didn't like
The only thing that felt like it could be improved is that the videos and music could be played louder.
My overall impression
Fearless. Mitchell Bisschop surprises with a completely unbridled performance, playing a multitude of characters, voices, and appearing in a series of highly creative videos projected between segments. Mitchell and director Dan De Lorenzo have created a mind-bending nostalgic trip, cleverly weaved by the fabric of some of the most iconic commercials of the 1980s. As a child of the era, I thought it was weirdly brilliant, extrapolating the most odd and imaginative continuing life stories for the actors that played the most memorable characters in these spots, namely Mikey from the LIFE commercials, the Life Call elderly woman (“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”), and “The Noid” from the Domino’s commercials of the past. The show is really a commentary on corporate America and its relationship with society socially, and how it affects our work culture shrouded in an absurd journey of one commercial actor’s attempt to find his professional hero. The show is the right length for a one-man act, it has a ton of laughs, and makes you think. Theatre like this is hard to find, and certainly may not be for everyone. For my taste, its off-beat humor, unrestrained and audacious weirdness makes it worth a visit.
