16th August
I watched Richard Gadd's show "Monkey See, Monkey Do" as part of Comedy Central's "Live At Soho Theatre" series. The show won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2016, in part through a huge amount of word of mouth buzz. A year before I had filled in at the last minute in one of his previews for "Waiting For Gaddot", a show in which he only appeared on stage in the last ten minutes and enlisted Ben Target, Ian Smith and Ed Aczel (or on that occasion, me) alongside a plethora of multimedia techniques to tell the story.
He uses similar techniques here to explore notions of masculinity and anxiety whilst spending the entire hour on a treadmill running from the black dog, or rather some sort of ape. It's not always comfortable to watch but it is very distinctive, demonstrating Gadd's aptitude as a physical actor as we journey into his subconscious. In terms of comedy, I'm having a hard time thinking of anything quite like it and it's worth viewing for that reason alone.
He uses similar techniques here to explore notions of masculinity and anxiety whilst spending the entire hour on a treadmill running from the black dog, or rather some sort of ape. It's not always comfortable to watch but it is very distinctive, demonstrating Gadd's aptitude as a physical actor as we journey into his subconscious. In terms of comedy, I'm having a hard time thinking of anything quite like it and it's worth viewing for that reason alone.
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