Olga Koch - Fat Tom Cruise

Going in blind to a show is fun - in theory - but terrifying in practice, especially when the story teller is Olga Koch, who delivers her exceptionally intelligent musings at a mile a minute. If it weren’t for her stated “no man left behind reference policy”, I would have been in way over my head.

From politics to sexual innuendos, at no stage did I know where this hour would go next, but as we jumped in Olga’s time machine a skeleton began to form around Olga’s whip smart storytelling, her the ever in control captain, us the doe-eyed passengers awaiting our next giggle.

Olga expertly navigated a mirage of her own personal stories, threaded between retellings of global historical politics in the 70s - leaving us wondering what all this had to do with anything, and to what destination she was taking us. But of course, dear audience, of course there is a bigger picture.

This show, ultimately, is about knowing how to tell a story, how to spin it in your favour, and what sound effects and lighting to use to ensure it’s received as a comedy and not a horror. But it’s also, at its core, about us. About women and men, and what we are scared of.

Fat Tom Cruise is as endearing as it is confronting, and is above all, one not to miss.