RADICOOL YOUTH!
Te Auaha - Tapere Iti, 65 Dixon St, Wellington
04/03/2020 - 07/03/2020
Production Details
Beloved(?) Christian Youth Pastor, Jayden McIntyre is inviting you to the SICKEST night of entertainment you can have! He’ll spout some RAD Christian values that have been shaken up to be more relatable for his fellow Youth’s!
Jayden will take you through an EPIC night of LIT sermons, DOPE songs, CRAY games and may suffer an AWESOME identity crisis right before your eyes! Haha Epic! *Dabs*. So grab your Fidget Spinner, your Rip Stick and say COWABUNGA, my fellow young people!
Tapere Iti at Te Auaha, 65 Dixon Street, Wellington
Wednesday 04 – Saturday 07 March 2020
6:30pm
Price General Admission $15.00 Concession $12.00 Fringe Addict $10.00
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Wheelchair access available
Theatre , Solo ,
Some great comedic moments
Review by Brett Adam 05th Mar 2020
Dylan Hutton’s Jayden McIntyre is a 30 year old leader of a Christian youth group called Radicool, currently meeting in his Dad’s garage as he has been kicked out of his previous meeting place by the Khandallah Crochet Group.
This is a funny, if not terribly deep, show about one very desperate dude trying form a meaningful connection with ‘the kids’ while spreading the message of his saviour. His having to deal with his overbearing father, bored wife and constant phone calls from his lord ‘Jaysus’ (not to mention his total inability to be cool) makes for a great way to spend fifty minutes in the theatre.
Hutton is a strong performer, he establishes a great connection with the audience from his wobbly entrance on a skate board and keeps us totally engaged throughout the show. The piece moves at a cracking pace through his committed performance, great physicality, zingy one-liners and sick fidget spinning skills. His daggy attempts at trying to be cool, including his embarrassing overuse of ‘youth speak’ provide us with some great comedic moments.
However his nervous laughter and slightly manic positive outlook on life are obviously hiding something. We slowly realise that all is not well in his marriage and members of the audience respond sympathetically. Hutton’s tech for the evening is Whacko Jacko, an ex-con recently released from jail, and their relationship grows throughout the show whilst those with his father, wife and ‘Jaysus’ all start to crack and crumble.
Unfortunately the show doesn’t quite hit the emotional payoff it’s aiming for, despite the strong moment of connection between the two men towards the end. Hutton’s character is confronted by a number of harsh home-truths from his wife and ‘Jaysus’, that whilst funny are also soberingly accurate. This is a moment that the show could have really gone for the emotional kick in the guts but it pulls its punches and nothing really changes. However this is really the only quibble I have with an otherwise fun and light-hearted show.
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