BINGO!

antimatter collective · Ages 13+ · United States of America

Content Warning one person show world premiere
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Review by LISA CRON

July 15, 2023 certified reviewer

What I liked

Bingo! zeros in what happens when someone (a man, duh) doesn’t take responsibility for his actions (all men? maybe), the consequences that thus befall him, and how fragile, fleeting, and ultimately self-indulgent the moment is when he claims to actually take responsibility (read: if it doesn’t instantly absolve him, well then, fuck you). And all that in the form of a man (in a tour de force performance by Newman Wolf) slowly unraveling while calling bingo in an old folks home. Plus, real bingo! Does it get better than that? I don’t think so.

What I didn't like

What could be improved? The only thing I can think of is, more pudding maybe, and sheesh, just vanilla?

My overall impression

Brilliant, hilarious, heartbreaking, dead-on accurate — the universal is only accessed through the very, very specific — and this show does exactly that.

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