Gisele Vienne | Dennis Cooper | JERK Nov 7, 2008
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Comments
I walked out of the
I walked out of the performance during the audience\\\'s 2nd reading. I would have left earlier, but was seated in the 2nd row, dead center, and was literally trapped. I found the courage to leave only after three people seated on the end walked out. I left the theater feeling extremely angry at OTB for leaving me with the very disturbed and sick feeling that I had just witnessed a snuff film. I subscribe to OTB and will continue to do so, but kindly ask that, in the future, it not subject me to like performances.
The teenage subjects of Jerk
The teenage subjects of Jerk mistakenly believe that because killing is intense it's good, awesome, worth doing. The creators of Jerk make a similar mistake: thinking that because the show is intense (creepy, gross) it is therefore good art, worth watching. But obviously, there's lots of things that are intense and creepy and gross but aren't good art. If you want to make me sick to my stomach, that's okay, but there needs to be some kind of payoff, artistic or intellectual or something. But there was no payoff here. I went in thinking that maybe the monsters will be humanized and the disgusting acts will be made comprehensible, but it never happens. The closest the show came to making me empathize with the main character is when he feels jealous at discovering that his lover has had multiple affairs. But of course, that has nothing to do with the killings. So, because there was no intellectual payoff, the show felt like it was just "gross for grossness sakes", which is kind of boring.
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