Cold and unable to sleep for 36 hours? Who could relate to that? Enter Shackleton (Andrew Mueller) from the back of her refrigerator, bearing a banjo and a message of never giving up. | ✍️ kerryreid
, which is now in its Chicago premiere at Porchlight Music Theatre under Michael Unger’s direction, checks all the boxes. But though the internal logic breaks down from time to time in this 90-minute show, as a paean to “foolish optimists,” it mostly rings true.
Kat struggles to create new experimental music loops while her infant son sleeps next door. Her slacker boyfriend is on the road with a Journey cover band and hasn’t paid a dime toward the heating bill. Cold and unable to sleep for 36 hours? Who could relate to that? Enter Shackleton from the back of her refrigerator, bearing a banjo and a message of never giving up.
So OK, it’s kind of hokey, but damned if Carlson and Mueller don’t make it all work. The former in particular has a stupendous set of pipes. Add in Smooch Medina’s terrific projection designs , and you’ve got an offbeat but oddly moving blend of history and hope. If Shackleton and his men could survive hell on earth, maybe an exhausted artist and mom can hold on another day.
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