Shenoah Allen – Soho Theatre

REVIEW: Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime

Rating: 4 out of 5. “Bone-chilling and unbridled eccentricity funnelled into 60 minutes of gothic Americana comedy” Shenoah Allen really understands his audience. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Brits love an eccentric underdog. Unlike the Americans who love a cocky winner, we love to root for the less-egregious, the self-deprecating, the weird. Despite never relating to a single story he relayed, I found Allen to be funny, endea…

Shenoah Allen – Soho Theatre

A therapist created a warning for Allen, ‘you have an unnamed dread’. He has been running from his endless tragedies growing up in his family’s unusual commune style living so Allen found humour in all that made him, himself.  The show runs at 60 minutes with a mix of story telling and improv. Unfortunately, the momentum feels delayed and structured too loosely to feel completely free to let yourself go in the piece. Allen arrives on stage with …

Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime – Soho Theatre, London

Sheonah Allen begins his monologue memoir in a cod-Latino accent. The voice he’s chosen to mimic is the owner of a store called Masks y Mas (“Masks and more”), a shop in Allen’s native Albuquerque, New Mexico. He also tries on British accents, from which it may be safe to assume that his store owner [...] The post Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime – Soho Theatre, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.