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Old God

 
JP Review by JP 4 Published: 19 Aug 2025 Assembly Roxy Show Dates: 30 Jul 2025-24 Aug 2025

Old God is a whimsical fool. How old is he? Where did he come from? Why does he have a fruity little outfit? We don’t quite know. What we do know is that he wants to have fun with us.

Old God is captivating and impressive

From Jeff Bezos miming to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Old God is greatly informed by classical art and physicality. But that doesn’t take away from the lovely idiocy that comes with my personal highlight of the show: the Marzipan Hand song. You’ll just have to go to the show to see this special moment.

Played by Alec Jones-Trujillo, the indulgence of the classical clown is joyous to see. It merges thoughts of the old jester with what it means to incorporate clowning in the modern world. There are lovely moments of audience interaction as well as unmasking. Old God spins rhymes and myths as fast as we can process them. The endurance and energy of the show are captivating and impressive.

There is a moment of unmasking in the show that steps over a line and made me question the performer’s self-awareness. While Old God never stops building on his bits, this particular moment – involving a description of a Palestinian person – struck me the wrong way. It lacked self-awareness, even if it did further his joke about his unmasked character.

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Old God is a foppish, irreverent oracle. A singer of doom. A weaver of myth. A being so old they have forgotten their own name. With beautiful costuming, painted canvas backdrop and fancy golden foot lights, this white face clown seems to have walked out of the theater houses of the 1800s. Pantomime is performed along side improvisational feats of language. No one can keep up as Old God buries the audience beneath a sea of imagery and play spinning wildly in topic but elegantly in body.