Ashling Findlay-Carroll reviews a hit-or-miss production.
A series of short sketches that loosely centre around the idea of being a man, which provoked a smile but didn't have me rolling around the floor with laughter.
There is a playfulness between the two performers, which got the audience on board, and some nice moments of physical comedy, but the show itself seems a little too scrappy—even for clowns. Audiences are made to wait a while for the payoff to jokes, and it’s a little hit-or-miss whether they land. The times when they commit to the world they've created are dynamic, but unfortunately this isn't sustained throughout.
It’s not a bad way to spend an hour, but just short of laugh-out-loud comedy.
Chapshtick performs at New Town Theatre at 1610 until August 27 (not
August 15).
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