←Recommendations of Midnight Showing

Absolutely loved this play about an asexual woman who refuses to censor her work to pacify her audience. I loved Diana. I believed her. I believed IN her. She is 120% herself. Even when she doesn't like herself. Also, the sh*t in mouth explanation is the best definition of being ace that I've ever seen. Would love to see this play out on a stage.

Diana is such a great, well-rounded, and inspiring character, unceasingly dedicated to her own weirdo vision and not caring one bit whether other people like it or not. Despite the play being mostly in a "telling" mode, it's engaging and highly theatrical. A bold, funny, bittersweet look at following one's muse wherever it leads, and trying to carve out a life around it.

Diana is so grotesque but so likable a bit like Devine in a way. Throughout Midnight Showing Heily does an expert job of crafting an impeccably clear character with incredibly fun clowns filling in around her. The humor of the piece is so quick, so effortless. It's such a fun trip and it would be a riot to stage.

In the true spirit of Diana's heroes Divine and John Waters, Midnight Showing is deeply, wonderfully weird. It's also fully its own original creation. Unapologetic, unflinching, and unsanitized, the play portrays artistic successes and "failures," asexuality, mental illness, and death with humor and humanity.

An excellent look at the mind and life of an artist. Loved the inclusion of asexuality.