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It's A Motherfucking Pleasure theatre review: Satirical take on disability and identity

Despite their friendly demeanour, FlawBored present a compelling attack on able-ism

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It's A Motherfucking Pleasure theatre review: Satirical take on disability and identity

Despite the abrasive title, FlawBored (Samuel Brewer, Chloe Palmer and Aarian Mehrabani) are a cheerful, accommodating trio of educational presenters, with a proper satirical intent behind their disability-led show, which deals with the ‘mass-marketing of identity’. Two of the presenters happen to be blind, and the show opens with a slew of excuses, statements and disclaimers about the nature of disability and able-ism; it’s clear from the get-go that this parodic tactic is very much an attack on the way that today’s social media attempts to force-feed us a sense of who we are.

Picture: Alex Brenner

What earns It’s A Motherfucking Pleasure a fourth star is the disturbing climax, which is deliberately triggering; as a device, it reveals the serious intent behind what is an accessible and funny show. There are ongoing questions about how the term disabled is used; hopefully such debates will include the jet-black wit that FlawBored bring to the discussion.

It’s A Motherfucking Pleasure, Underbelly Bristo Square, until 27 August, 2.20pm. 

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