“The problem with the play is that it's all just a little too familiar...The laughs land and the satire bites, but one feels there's an opportunity missed to find something really new to say post-pandemic, mid-cost of living crisis.”
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Joseph Charlton has written a play that is both epic and intimate, mirroring the size of the company and the experience of taking a taxi ride. Brilliant Jerks is funny and thought-provoking without losing a sense of the characters and their importance to the story.
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“It’s a common current criticism of theatre that shows are too long, but here’s one that would benefit from being significantly longer.”
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"Intimate and often deeply felt despite the global scale of some of the subject matter, 'Brilliant Jerks' raises some important questions about workplace cultures, the commodification of ideas, and even the ethics behind the very apps it's inspired by. "
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"The comedy does overshadow a little, leaving a feeling that perhaps we’ve seen this story before and that perhaps Brilliant Jerks does not have much new to say."
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“The design of this production is as slick and cool as the writing...With echoes of The Social Network, Joseph Charlton’s ‘Brilliant Jerks’ is fresh, cool and utterly engrossing.”
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“ ‘Brilliant Jerks’ is too cluttered a vehicle to explore its themes of power, sexism and survival with the required depth.”
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