SPEECH
“It feels like I’m being dragged through the truth” -Broad Street Review
ABOUT THE SHOW
Scott’s Role - Lead Writer/Performer
SPEECH is a poisonous love letter to cancel culture. The show isn't just happening on stage. It's happening in your DMs. And in your kid’s eye rolls. In your hook-up agreements. In your attempt to actually compost this year. During your daily subway cry. It's all the things we don't say about the things we DO say.
Created with Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Lightning Rod Special, SPEECH offers a satirical scrutiny of the free speech debate and the rapidly shifting terrain of civil discourse within our hyper-visible, social-media-centered world. Characters careen through different microcosms of American culture in a searing look at how trepidation and performativity infect all aspects of our lives.
SPEECH was part of the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
PRESS
“LIGHTNING ROD SPECIAL [EXPLORES] COMPLEX AND SENSITIVE SUBJECT MATTER WITH WIT, HUMOR, AND IRREVERENCE, WHILE NEVER LOSING THE HUMANITY THAT PROVIDES THE EMOTIONAL PUNCH.”
— KIRSTEN BOWEN, BROAD STREET REVIEW