Becoming Banksy

CBC:

Company: Off Broadway Productions

Genre: Play Comedy

Venue:3 The Playhouse Studio

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Becoming Banksypurports to answer the age old question haunting civilization for millennia who is Banksy?

The answer may shake you to your very core. Or not. But it's got a really strong structure, plenty of laughs, and memorable dialogue.

David Michaels as Michael Banks, aka not the real Banksy, is pathetically hilarious as a soon-to-be divorced, Mary Kay salesperson, who dreams of becoming a successful landscape artist,an accomplishment "guaranteed to dry up a woman's twat."

Jamil Chokachi plays the dozens of supporting roles that appear in this New York tale of art fraud and identity theft. He produces a virtuoso performance. Playing Banksy's estranged wife, with only a swishy scarf to signify gender, he convinced me to suspend all disbelief and I fell completely into the pathos of the scene.

The "surprise" ending may not knock your socks off butBecoming Banksycertainly leaves its mark.

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