‘Oversexed and overpraised’ – A Strange Loop evaluation

Trailing a number of awards together with two Tonys and a Pulitzer, Michael R. Jackson’s meta-musical lastly arrives in London from the US.

It is the story of a theatre usher whose goals of writing a musical are hampered by the truth that he’s “fat, Black and queer.”

Advised to write down what he is aware of, he begins penning a musical a couple of fats Black queer theatre usher making an attempt to write down a musical a couple of “fBqtu” as his six “Inner Thoughts” alternately harass and encourage him.

While references to American Black tradition might have some that means for the ‘In’ crowd it would get little traction in an actual viewers.

Graphic element of homosexual sexual practices and jokey scenes involving the Church of AIDS could also be thought-about by some to be creative and daringly unique however the enterprise has the stench of incestuous theatrical complacency.

Oversexed, overpraised and over right here.

A Strange Loop, Barbican Theatre till September 9 Tickets: 020 7870 2500