Virtue Signaling Through the Flames

Abstract

Brandishing obsessively millennial memes, some deliciously cheap theatrics, and a caustic Wildean wit, experimental theatre company Fake Friends’ Drama Desk-nominated Circle Jerk provided a delectable banquet of social critiques reminiscent of Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. The performance exposes internet fakery, racism in white gay culture, and the sclerotic political discourse of our post-truth era wrapped in a whirlwind of theatre history references and bad wigs.