Review: It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure, Soho Theatre

Review: It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure, Soho Theatre

OMG! The PR Agency ‘Rize’ has been accused of being ‘ableist’ so the massive weapons have been introduced in to do one thing about it. Shall we embark upon a plan of action involving reality discovering, studying and enchancment? No, after all not. Let’s make some cash. Enter unscrupulous, blind expertise supervisor Tim (Samuel Brewer) who has a crafty plan. He manipulates and makes use of blind influencer Ross (Aarian Mehrabani) to make use of his incapacity for some money-making schemes. So, posting on the theme of ‘being blind is cool, everyone should experience it’ the variety of followers will increase and sponsorship offers abound. Of course, there are all the time unintended penalties: the one described did jar a bit with the remainder of the present, however maybe that was the purpose.

The irreverent tone is about firstly when the forged introduce themselves and one another. There are steady excessive apologies simply in in case anyone is offended or excluded. Efforts to cater for various necessities find yourself with them going spherical in a loop, which proves an amusing means of displaying that one particular person’s wants might effectively contradict one other’s. There are captions and ‘Integrated Audio Description’ all through that cowl not solely the motion and the characters but additionally the vibe. Excellent stuff.

Writers Chloe Palmer, Brewer and Mehrabani additionally carry out the entire elements, utilizing stance, accent and mannerism to tell apart between characters. Palmer’s insipid HR woman is especially gratifying. A easy set sees a small desk, a few chairs, and a big display screen on the again for the captions, which could possibly be argued for as being one other forged member. The efficiency space is a fairly brightly colored mat edged with black and yellow hazard tape, and that is identified by employees on entry. Even so, somebody nonetheless managed to journey over it. That’s not a criticism, it sort of reinforces the purpose relating to the difficulties of making certain a totally accessible present for each particular person.

This is a really humorous and gratifying manufacturing, poking enjoyable at superficial, woke behaviour in relation to id politics and tapping into anxiousness about doing the fitting factor. The forged clearly state that that is all a joke and invented, earlier than happening to present some actual life examples. I’m tempted to say you couldn’t make it up. As with all good comedy, there’s a small grain of fact in it which lodges itself in the back of your mind.

Running at solely an hour in the mean time, the premise has the potential to be developed into one thing longer and I’d fairly prefer to see how that will pan out. And regardless of the bullying techniques warning any reviewers within the viewers about giving something much less, it nonetheless will get 4 stars from me. I additionally admit to getting a sticker on the finish, simply to indicate I’m not ‘ableist’.

Written by: Aarian Mehrabani, Chloe Palmer, Samuel Brewer, with Josh Roche
Directed by: Josh Roche
Produced by: Stephen Bailey for ASYLUM Arts and Flawbored
Design be: Cara Evans
Captioning and video by: Dan Light

It’s a Motherf***ing Pleasure performs at Soho Theatre till 13 May. Further info and bookings could be discovered right here.