My overall impression
Clara York’s one-woman piece on agoraphobia, online shopping and the perils of meeting your neighbors is many things: a tragicomic hour designed to forcibly extract laughter while keeping you near tears. Her character, Carla, is a voice for our times: paranoid, alienated, feeling isolated and lonely in a crowd of people, the living embodiment of our digital age. Her performance sends you careening through a forest of laughs and tragedy…but the tragedy still makes you laugh, albeit the nervous laughter of an audience realizing that Carla’s life is only a stones’ throw from our own. Mail-order couches, biological clocks, the shallowness of the acting/modeling world – all are deftly skewered for our consumption on a shishkabob made of neurotic humor and a keen understanding of our isolationist society. A fantastic, must-see show from a talented artist. Highly recommended.
