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A funny, true, & utterly original “storytelling experience” goes completely off the rails, becoming a ridiculous, heartfelt, & uplifting story about life itself. “CRITIC’S PICK: Laugh-out-loud funny.” -City Beat, Cincinnati. “A+… His best show yet. His trademark energy, disarming affability, inventive writing & goofball sincerity come together to beautiful effect.” -My Entertainment World, Toronto
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Deliberately repetitive and predictable with low key racism and essentially nothing about the Forbidden City. The end is fine.
Like an irritating, skipping record, Martin Dockery tests his audiences’ resolve with repeated false starts, squeezing the humour threshold to breaking point with the promise of eventual pleasure. Foreplay, as Martin admits, is his forte. This, as most of his travelogues, is not so much foreign adventure as it is about the human condition. It flows with tangents, seemingly wildly off topic, often hilarious, and in the end, all part the clever web he carefully weaves. In his manic Kramerish (Seinfeld) mannerisms, Dockery sucks the room, manipulating it for a tantalizing spell, before delivering the knockout punch. The man’s a master.
– hipCRANK
Never disappoints.. it’s a well built curious show, funny and illuminating with a innovative slight of hand ending
Martin Dockery is an exceedingly animated and funny storyteller, and recounts a visit to the Forbidden City (exclamation point!) in a delightfully neurotic way. Very engaging; highly recommend this show!
Highly recommended! Dockery delivers a funny, engaging, and touching performance again. The comment above from ‘No’ is absolutely false and should be removed.