What I liked
‘Unwrapped’ is f—-ing hilarious. It’s also a fascinating one-woman drama that kept me riveted to my seat until its final moments.
Kira wastes no time getting into the dark recesses of her soul in this show. They are treacherous waters indeed, but Kira guides the audience along confidently, with razor-sharp comic instincts and a storytelling prowess that far exceeds her years.
Kira’s self-reflective banter is dizzyingly agile. She bounds through philosophical concepts and stranger than fiction anecdotes with an enthusiasm and energy that never seems to falter. One minute she’s yanking laughs out of your belly — the next, she’s drawing tears out of your eye-balls.
Kira talks a lot about death in this show. A lot about insecurity. A lot about Hitler (again, those puns are really on-point). She’s able to linger on these moments of pain and doubt with surprising poise, and her willingness to tread that unsteady, emotionally-fraught ground earnestly tugged at my heart-strings more times than I could count. It’s this quality that elevates ‘Unwrapped’ beyond an intellectually stimulating stand-up set — to a show of substance and staying-power.
I highly recommend that you watch ‘Unwrapped: Life After Giftedness’.
What I didn't like
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My overall impression
Kira’s brain is clearly on another level than us mere mortals. Through her mastery of witticism, self-effacement and puns about Hitler, Kira is able to give us a brief but tantalizing glimpse into the frighteningly funny web of introspection she lives with every day. Against all odds, ‘Unwrapped’ made me actually like a one-person show. Highly recommended.
