Trued on a Base Story: A Cautionary Tale

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Company: The Opposite of People

Genre: Storytelling

Venue: 10 Planetarium Auditorium

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John Sadoway's autobiographical show explores what happens when adults violate their professional code to protect the minors in their care. In his specific case, what happens is a predatory high-school teacher manipulates a 17-year-old kid into entering what would become a 11-year sham of a relationship.

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The writing here is decent I particularly liked the Sting joke and the imagery of children caught in the middle of their parents' dysfunction as bullets in a gun clip and the uncompromising honesty is to be commended. This is a man who is living with the consequences of past choices and it's not always pretty.

Sadoway definitely has something to say. At issue is the way he says it.- Marlo Campbell

Sadoway definitely has something to say. At issue is the way he says it: his delivery felt under-rehearsed and far too conversational, the kind of storytelling that would work much better overa few beers than from the stage.