PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents Lorenzo - Ben Target / Soho Theatre
A life-affirming story about death, conveyed through the popular mediums of storytelling, servitude to the audience and live carpentry, a combination not seen on the world stage since Nazareth, circa AD30.
In 2020, Ben Target gave up his comedy career to look after his irascible octogenarian uncle, Lorenzo, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this autobiographical hour, he shares acute insights into caregiving, interweaving melancholy and hilarity.
Forthright and funny, Ben unflinchingly documents the reality and the often-unspoken aspects of caring for an aging loved one. Through his deeply personal tale we reflect on common preoccupations: what we leave behind in death, who and what shape the way we are remembered, and how to face disappointing ourselves when we are painfully human.
LORENZO is electric with feeling, and a heartfelt ode to what it means to love and to care.
Strobe lights, pyrotechnics
Discussion of death and euthanasia
Presented with support from the Vancouver Civic Theatres.
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