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Brett Epstein: Alone on Stage

 
Roger Kay Review by Roger Kay 4 Published: 8 Aug 2024 theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall Show Dates: 2 Aug 2024-17 Aug 2024

Brett Epstein is alone on stage.

Brett is charming, funny and bares his soul, truthfully and eloquently

Or is he?

We enter Surgeons’ Hall venue to find a table on stage. We are asked to submit a question to Brett, anything at all.

He takes the stage - a bundle of nervous, but charming, energy.

A 30-something LGBTQ+ New Yorker, he presents to a sizeable audience a cross-section of his life. He shares aspects of his romantic life, his acting achievements and aspirations. He has had co-starring television roles many times, but, such is human nature, desires more.

His romantic life has been complicated. He talks us through some Hinge conversations – the self-professed “dating app designed to be deleted”. He goes on to tell us that his desires for the bedroom are “mildly kinky”. The details are delivered honestly, exposing Brett’s humorous but humanistic qualities.

He was bullied in his youth, but wants to forgive. Although secretly you suspect some reckoning would be also welcome.

His rapid-fire, high octane delivery is relentless, barely pausing for breath, his physicality always interesting. Is he direct or intense?

His relationship with his nephew offers a glimpse of family life, but deep down, like most of us, he wants to be loved.

He concludes the show by taking three random questions prepared by the audience- as a result, we learn his ultimate sexual fantasy.

Brett is charming, funny, perhaps has neuroses, appears prone to seeking approval, but he bares his soul, truthfully and eloquently. He is most definitely not alone after all.

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Brett Epstein – host of the decade-long smash Rule of 7x7 (New York Times, Time Out New York, Playbill highlight) and the very very co-star of Friends from College and Ray Donovan – reflects upon the highs and lows of being an artist, being alone and Being Alive™. A darkly comic Brooklyn Bottling Company solo show.