At the begin­ning of this show, author/​performer Cory Woj­cik claims that he breaks every rule of the­atre. Not by a long shot. He obeys the first rule, telling the truth, and many oth­ers, includ­ing engag­ing the audience’s hearts and minds, main­tain­ing dra­mat­ic ten­sion, and per­form­ing to the very best of one’s abil­i­ty, which in Cory’s case is extraordinary.

The pro­duc­tion itself uses the frame­work of songs his moth­er loved, with a great back-up band accom­pa­ny­ing him as he sings songs that illu­mi­nate his moth­er and var­i­ous oth­er peo­ple in his life, inter­spersed with dra­mat­ic sto­ry­telling. I can’t rec­om­mend this per­for­mance high­ly enough, and I think that every­one who attend­ed open­ing night would agree with me.

Venue 30 — X‑Cues
Sto­ry­telling
90 Min­utes
Mature Audi­ence
Warn­ings: Coarse Lan­guage
Acces­si­bil­i­ty: low vision/​blind