What starts as an audio-described introduction descends into a darkly comic pisstake. From disability-led theatre company FlawBored, this debut is an ensemble-devised satire of the commodification of people with disabilities, spotlighting the disingenuousness, the careless virtue signalling, and the unhelpful anxiety that frequently crop up in conversations around disabilities. The presentation has an easy-going charm to it, but this company is not afraid to make us squirm.
Through a series of meta sketches fuelled by corporate buzzwords and over-apologies, our three affable hosts (Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani and Chloe Palmer) drily mock the commercial mass-marketing of disabled identities. The storytelling is playful with a keen eye for experimentation, complete with interruptions from the captioner and moments where they step out of the show to plead with us not to cancel them on Twitter.
