Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance
Leung has really hit on something here. It’s not that his topic is exceptionally revolutionary’most of the material is about Leung exploring what cool is’rather it is brilliantly executed.
He instills everything one wants from a creative exercise: a constant narrative, intelligent observations and a lot of himself. In fact, it is this personal element that lifts this above the usual comedy fest fare.
Leung’s humour is generally nostalgic and tends towards the personal, emphasising stories of his childhood, girls he had crushes on and his jealousy of his brother Dennis’s coolness. He pushes this with the use of multimedia, including two video segments that, although a little reminiscence of other stunt comedy, add to the overall ideas he wanted to get across in a most entertaining manner.
More than anything else, this show illustrates that the best comedy acts tend to have a consistent narrative, no matter how thin that might be. Breakdance builds on Leung’s personal quest to find the essence of cool to a stunningly humorous finale, which is even tinged with a little emotional kick.
It is quite a brave show, so reliant on the audience actually liking Leung; but that isn’t very hard. He is so personal in style, so enthusiastic, so prepared to give a little of himself, that you can’t help but feel privileged to be there.



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