Michelle Zahner takes us through a fun and thoughtful journey through the life of a modern day superhero, and how...

Michelle Zahner takes us through a fun and thoughtful journey through the life of a modern day superhero, and how they're perceived by others. What transformations may occur during this process? The pressure of the public gaze - sometimes helpful, but what will it do to you?

Using a combination of poetry, The Evening Standard, journals, some cool acrobatics, delicious looking bakery products, the eager and ever willing* Australian theatre volunteer from the audience, a neat projector system and overhead markers Michelle describes the inner turmoil of her heroine, her friend or is it nemesis - and what legacy the Shadow leaves the world.

When a disaster creeps rather than pounces, when people make tiny adjustments to their life rather than doing something about it - when somebody notices and does something about it is when heroism occurs. I did very much like that line, and I hope I'm remembering it right - ~Noticing is the gateway drug to Heroism~.

Zahner's changes of character and associated body language and voices were exceptionally good - highly skilled! Enough for myself as one of the hapless and unskilled volunteers to easily lip-synch the cartoon heroine's voice when needed with the projector, all without seeing the screen or the actor.

At the start of the show you're asked to request something of the superhero by writing in her request book - I asked for a cure for coeliac disease for +Rob Masters who originally wanted to see the show and suggested we go, but he ended up getting a virus and couldn't attend. So I asked on his behalf. But alas, there are some things that superheros can't do. She did apologise.

The show asks questions but doesn't answer them. If you're like me, this makes you go and look up the answers.

I now know what the plural to nemesis is.
I knew what gluten is, of course with poor coeliac husband.
And I also now know what the male equivalent to a damsel is.
~there is a word and it's in the OED ~

A thought provoking and inspiring show, thoroughly entertaining.

10/10 Kapow! Watching "The Tick" monolog on the bus on the way to the City for the first time in The Tick Vs The Idea Men, on the Sid and Nancy Scale.

*this is irony.

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