Comedian Kate Berlant's “anti-confessional” style is more revealing than it seems.
which Berlant nailed, surprising everyone, including herself. “Apparently I electrified the casting office,” she says.The artifice of set life can be off-putting, even for lifelong Angelenos. Berlant reminisces on the strange splendor of spending the day in the child actor’s answer to school with Hilary Duff. “I mean, it's bizarre, it's like performing school,” she says.
But childhood celebrity wasn’t in the cards for a precocious Berlant, who was fired by her manager after her first audition for a part onwent up in flames. Her losing streak continued when she performed a deleted Parker Posey monologue fromwith a large plushie fish as a prop for a group of unimpressed agents. “I don't know why my mother or someone didn't discourage me from taking in the fish,” she says. “Needless to say, no one signed me.
Despite the show’s thesis of Berlant’s traumatic mythos, she keeps the audience at arm’s length, shielding her personal life from public consumption, choosing instead to make herself physically vulnerable via a live projection of her face which is broadcast on the stage wall. It’s a departure from the zeitgeisty comedy that often requires performers to barter their innermost thoughts for laughs, something Berlant turns on its head.
Berlant’s fascination with self-perception and projection recently came to a head when she was isolated over Thanksgiving. This time spent waiting out a COVID exposure happened to coincide with a period of beauty that only she bore witness to.
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