Sunday, 17 September 2017

Simon Jay's Trump Impersonation

This is two

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The audience is uncertain at first, the performance is rough edge, the venue intimate, but they warm to the Q&A portion of the show.

VENUE

The location that is described here feels appropriate for satire performers that really wants get their message across to the audience in a simple but effective way.

Reminds me of the venue of Cafe Konrad in Luxembourg for The Fever, very intense in getting its political social, has a hint of Augusto Boal's street theatre. (I made that link when talking to the performer and director, and they said that was spot-on, as it was linked to American atrocities that there were being carried out in Central America)

Having the one actor sitting alone at first not sure what he was going (only ever seen a one-man show as a child when watching a narrator about the goose or something, that technique has been used for example in the beginning of Lazarus). Are satirists teaching their audience, treating them like children?

ENGAGING WITH THE AUDIENCE

Questions and audiences is an extension of breaking the fourth wall.

Trump: Okay, yeah what's ya question sir?
Audience: Eh, how do you intend to build the wall between Mexico and the USA?
Trump: It's not a wall, it's not a wall sir, it's a freedom divider.
LAUGHTER
Gets serious later with Trump getting people to threaten Hilary with guns, the gun culture of USA, and ultimately with the use of recorded Noam Chomsky's words.