Trued on a Base Story: A Cautionary Tale

While writing is decent, the tone for Trued is too conversational

Image | Trued on a Base Story fringe

Caption: (The Opposite of People)

Rating: ★★
Company: The Opposite of People
Genre: Storytelling
Venue: 10 — Planetarium Auditorium
Purchase Tickets(external link)
John Sadoway's autobiographical show explores what happens when adults violate their professional code to protect the minors in their care. In his specific case, what happens is a predatory high-school teacher manipulates a 17-year-old kid into entering what would become a 11-year sham of a relationship.
The writing here is decent – I particularly liked the Sting joke and the imagery of children caught in the middle of their parents' dysfunction as bullets in a gun clip – and the uncompromising honesty is to be commended. This is a man who is living with the consequences of past choices and it's not always pretty.
Sadoway definitely has something to say. At issue is the way he says it. - Marlo Campbell
Sadoway definitely has something to say. At issue is the way he says it: his delivery felt under-rehearsed and far too conversational, the kind of storytelling that would work much better over a few beers than from the stage.
< Back to Fringe reviews

Image | Fringe big pic