The Writing on the Stall NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (1)
See it if You want to leave with plenty of food for thought after having some incredible laughs
Don't see it if You aren’t a fan of R rated jokes
Critic Reviews (2)
“ ‘The Writing on the Stall’ is the kind of delightfully irreverent, gleefully vulgar, slyly intellectual show...Cook proves that this collision of standup comedy and song (do we still call it cabaret?) is something she can do well. I suspect the form will stick to her like an errant piece of toilet paper affixed to your shoe.”
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Cook’s presentation of graffiti in song and slide show doesn’t readily fit any one genre: It’s musical theater, sort of, stand-up comedy, gross-out comedy, anthropology, art history, a jokey kind of feminism. I above all found the show deeply weird – and that was before it swerved unexpectedly into a personal memoir of trauma. “The Writing on the Stall” made me uncomfortable at numerous times and in numerous ways.
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