This show is “automatic, systematic, hyyyyyydromatic” it’s… actually quite a serious examination of two pubescent characters and their respective experiences of an untimely death.

We arrive to a scrambling professor verbally accosting their lighting and sound technician as they refuse to hold the lecture for what the professor assures him is meant to be a jam-packed event. Really the technician deserves some slack because the sound, PowerPoint projected onto a cyclorama and lighting was effective, well timed and evocative with perfect levels.

Speaking of PowerPoint this is a lecture you have never seen before with the professor you always wish you had. Impassioned presentation of the evidence, nay, the facts are presented unto the audience so we can evaluate what truly happened during the fateful story of Danny and Sandy’s encounter that summer so many years ago.

Our esteemed professor delivers the empirical, peer-reviewed (probably) research that proves that the movie Grease is filled with death, lustful yet ill-fated hallucinations and existential crisis (Reddit, 2013). The performer sweeps us into this somewhat convincing illusion with their intensity, sequential, far reaching but well informed research and use of characterisation.

The way the professor embodies both Sandy and Danny throughout the performance is darkly lyrical and its poeticism is what what lends itself to the absurd and ultimately hilarious recount of spectacular imaginings.

The audience were on this rollercoaster completely as they laughed, abruptly stopped laughing, empathised with the predicaments in the movie told through this performers lens and were enthusiastic witnesses to their decent into certain madness.

It was a privilege to watch a single-person show that was so completely enthralling that the level of engagement would have been similar to a large-scale, flashy production. If you have we seen Grease go and see this show, it’s the perfect way to spend your “summer niiiiiiiiiight.”