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A brilliant dismantling of the American Dream
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CHARISMATIC: Jonathan Slinger as Scott
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ADAPTED from Scott McClanahan’s semi-autobiographical novel this amusingly dark dismantling of the American Dream is brilliantly performed by Jonathan Singer as Scott.
Addressing the audience directly, Scott opens his monologue by boasting that he is a skilled and experienced drunk driver. His description of a close call with a traffic cop veers from amusingly anarchical to childishly destructive, but the humour is undercut when he introduces the potential ramifications of his actions with his distressed children being his forgotten passengers.
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