Daniel Moore's Definitive Guide to Failure-Free Living - Review

My expectations walking into this show was a comedy taking the piss out of 'grindfluencers' like Gary Vee, Alex Hermozi, etc. Instead, we are met with a dark drama of a man who has locked himself in a room for over two years in order to 'eliminate failure' and is the midst of a mental breakdown.

The show contains flashbacks to his childhood where we learn his relationship with his dead-beat dad, who the lead character idolizes, trying to teach him "how to be a man".

This has emotionally stunted Daniel who believes becoming a famous guru, by eliminating failure, is the only way he will become something.

The performance feels very classical, as though I was watching a monologue by a student at Julliard or RADA. The setting was simple, but extremely effective to telling this story. The ending is powerful!

There are some lulls with the monologue becoming a bit repetitive to the point where the 50 minutes felt too long to tell the story and could have been trimmed.

⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

3.5/5