Darkie Armo Girl – Finborough Theatre
Darkie Armo Girl is a dizzying one woman show that, despite being filled with incredible details, fails to translate the writer’s experiences into a compelling show.
The play is a piece of confessional theatre. Writer and performer Karine Bedrossian takes us through her life experiences which are chaotic and many. We hear of numerous difficult childhood experiences and unsettling summer holidays. She takes us through careers as a receptionist, a singer, a dancer, a model, a bartender and a stripper. There are tales of drug abuse, sexual assault, rehab, and Jerry Springer.
Told to you by a friend at the pub, any one of these vignettes would be an incredible story. Put together on a stage, they become a morass. There is far too much here and the result is that the stories bleed int...
