Showing posts with label Best of All Possible Worlds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best of All Possible Worlds. Show all posts

Sunday, August 6, 2017

Fringe Festival 2017: "The Best of All Possible Worlds"

Day: 3

Show: 12


Category: Comedy

By: David Mann

Written by: David Mann

Location: Phoenix Theatre

Summary: An auto-biographical one-man show about what happens when you get the American dream and it's not quite what you thought it would be.

Highlights: As Glinda sings in Wicked, "getting your dreams, it's strange, but it seems a little... well... complicated." That's the gist of David's honest and real story of his life. Growing up "a white kid living in the Minnesota suburbs in the '70s - nothing was hard" (been there, done that), he expected to grow up to live a happy life in a nice home with his family. David talks about having kids and looking for that perfect house with his wife. He found it, but in order to afford it he took a job traveling around the country as a motivational speaker at corporate events, to "get the money to buy the stuff to make you happy." Except that he wasn't happy, so then what? This is a funny, poignant, relatable story about societal pressure and expectations to live the seemingly perfect life.

Read all of my Fringe mini-reviews here.