REVIEW: SO YOU’VE FOUND ME by Blue Bar Productions at Lion and Unicorn Theatre 4 – 8 Oct 2022

‘pitch perfect delivery’ ★★★★

A one-person show performed by a bad actor can have the best script in the world but still be a complete car crash. Luckily this was not the case in SO YOU’VE FOUND ME, a show about the process of becoming comfortable with one’s sexuality. Incidentally, it did have a very good script and was wonderfully directed, but it was Luis Donegan-Brown’s performance that stole the show.

Donegan-Brown is Nemo, a young man trying to find out which letter in LGBTQ (if any) suits him the best. He also portrays a number of other characters, allowing him to demonstrate a vast range of acting. He’s gut-wrenchingly sensitive, infectiously funny, cocky, emotional, dominant, submissive, masculine and feminine, all within the space of a few fleeting moments. And he has a tight clasp on the audiences’ attention, so much so that when the play ended, we didn’t know when to begin our standing ovation because we were so entranced by his magnetism.

The show is loose in its structure, but kind of gets away with it as it’s more of an explorative character study than a plot-driven production. At one point, Nemo even quips that tensionless stories don’t result in great theatre. SO YOU’VE FOUND ME proves that this is not necessarily true.

Themes of coming out and coming to terms with aspects of yourself, shine through. So does an appreciation of the internet as a potentially positive space for fledgling queer identities.

The show is also deeply funny. And again, much of this humour stems from the Donegan-Brown’s pitch perfect delivery and facial expressions. You know when someone is just physically very funny? Well, he was that.

So You’ve Found Me

Lion and The Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town

5th-8th October at 7.30pm

https://www.thelionandunicorntheatre.com/whats-on

Blue Bar Productions

Twitter: @BlueBarProd

Reviewed by Danny Shaw 

Danny studied English at Bristol University before completing a screenwriting MA at Leeds Beckett. He now works as a journalist and is an aspiring screenwriter / playwright.