PROTEIN - Comedy Review

WHAT: Protein WHEN: 25 - 27 August 2022 WHERE: MC Showroom WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: Darby James DIRECTED BY: Clary Riven Darby James You know what it's like. That day when nothing goes right and everything you touch, see or hear turns into a catastrophe which just keeps piling onto the trauma you are experiencing. Darby James certainly knows what days like that feel like and he tells us all about it in his comedy show Protein at MC Showroom this week. James has a residency with MC Showroom, hosting a Monday night musical comedy show every week through to December, so it is not surprising to see this show forming a part of the venue's first curated program for 2022. Having said that, Protein stands on it's own two feet as a solid show worthy of audiences. It had me thinking of the work Hannah Gadsby does and that could very well be the highest praise I can give an emerging comedian. The premise is a simple one. Charlie (James) is a millenial gay man going through an ex