My Brother and I are Porn Stars
Having announced that they have been sent downstairs while their porn star parents are working, Jackie (Jackie Van Beek) and Jon (Jonathan Brugh) launch into a comedy that ridicules societal norms.
From their initial decision to produce incestuous pornography to pay for breakfast to the revelation of Jon’s singing penis, this show gets most of its value from the sheer outrageousness of its content.
The show’s sacrilegious representation of Christianity is entirely in bad taste but hilarious and promises a prolonged audience reaction of disgusted amusement. This softens however as the show progresses, the style becoming noticeably more surreal and the comedy darker; there seems to be some deeper meaning underlying the action.
I wondered at the relative sobriety of these later scenes, perhaps advocating desire free from social expectations. Although, any clear message is obscured by Jon’s apology for ‘drinking’ Jackie’s baby and other ridiculous scenarios. It seems that the purpose behind the show is undecided or perhaps purposefully non-committal, causing the disparity in style between the beginning and end.
The set is minimal and ornamented with blow-up dolls and a bed, accommodating for the non-naturalistic scene changes quite well, which the actors make full use of. Brugh, in particular, slips seamlessly from character to character whilst on stage, most notably between Jon and his genitals. Van Beek also puts in a good performance, her childish voice making the vulgar phrases slipping from her mouth all the more hilarious.



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