Notes on (Love) Life
Sarah Deshaies
@sarahdeshaies
There is no dearth of plays about dating and love at the Fringe Festival, especially by white heterosexual males. Gerard Harris, a white heterosexual male, is the first to acknowledge that. But he is also a storyteller and a comedian, and he will go down that path.
Verbal Diarrhea, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Bomb at Love is Harris’ attempt to draw lessons from his life so far. We go through a patchwork quilt of stories, picking up threads of meaning here and there. We begin with Harris's fraught birth, and skip through a series of big moments: crushes, dates, sexual encounters gone awry, escapes.