2023 Audience Reviews

Company: Berlin Productions
Show: Kill Me, Too
Venue: Augsburg Mainstage

Wait a minute: About the show description

I've never written a show review before, though I have traveled to Minneapolis for 10+ years specifically for Fringe I checked out Kill Me, Too reviews yesterday, and I am finally driven to comment on a few things. Yes, the show made me twitchy, but doesn't art have that privilege? I left Ervin's show and walked over to The Corner Bar to watch my beloved Mariners win their fourth in a row against the Angels and take a look at the show description one more time. My 'after the fact' insights after reading comments previous comments and the description one more time: 1) Ervin's Genre and Content section includes adult language, crude humor (yup, to put it mildly), sexual content, and other divisive contnet (again, to put it mildly); 2) The description notes that it is in the Brechtian tradition. I had to look that up, but Brecht "developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes," he "did not seek to make his audience believe in the presence of the characters on the stage but instead make it realize that what it sees on the stage is merely an account of past events"; 3) Ervin's previous artistics works include movies that run the gamut from cocaine-porno frolics to sex road comedies; 4) Musical comedy? OK, I'll give the other reviews a bye on that, there was no music, but also Brecht was just a lyricist, remember Weill wrote the lyrics to Threepenny Opera! My lesson learned: read the show description carefully and make sure you are up for what it promises. As my rating indicates, it was my 'after the show' reading that really helped me appreciate Ervin's show and his artistry. BRAVO Minneapolis Fringe!