Culture

Avenue Q is a simple coming-of-age parable about finding your purpose in life - oh, and it is also a Broadway musical. Marketed as Sesame Street for adults, Avenue Q is pretty much just that: cheerful (and not so cheerful) puppets and people interact, discovering how to deal with life and all those tricky life-lessons we would really rather learn through osmosis.  
I can’t deny that people really are dynamic to watch. As much as I want to watch the puppets I do find myself drawn to the puppeteers. This isn’t a bad thing. The puppets are fantastic and the way the operators are able to make them move and interact with each other, and the other human characters, is extraordinary. 
Remember this show is R13, and let me just say the puppet sex is hysterical. What makes it even more hilarious is the way the actors have to engage in a game of ‘Twister’ to enable this multiple-position sexual encounter possible. Kelly Hocking and Douglas do wonderfully in their roles. Both taking on two major parts, their energy doesn’t wane and they hold the audience in the palms of their hands right to the very end.
All in all Avenue Q is a hysterical night out. Have a couple of drinks at the bar then head to the theatre and you might just realise that yes, you are just a little bit racist, and yes, it does suck to be you, and yes, it is ok to be gay. And after all is said and done, the moral of this story is: no matter what happens in your life, everything really is ok, if ‘only for now.’
5/5