The Bastion needed a drink Sunday night so we hit The Annoyance. We’re big fans of their stocked top shelf of single malt scotches AND shows so we bellied up and then we saw Brooke Bagnall’s Idiot: A Love Story in Pieces. Written by Bagnall and directed by Siren’s Megan Grano, Idiot is a twisted tail. The Reader highly recommended the show, though they said it lacked “polish.” Polish? We have no idea what they were talking about, unless it’s sausage and that means we’re pronouncing Polish wrong.

The show is in fact SUPER sharp as well as snappy, cutting, solid, and hilarious. Bagnall ferociously delivers her characters and braids their stories together to prove what we think her thesis is: Love, of any kind, for a spouse, parent, child, and yes, significant other makes you an idiot… but it’s nice when other idiots are around.

There are only 4 more weeks to see the show before it closes September 9^th. Go see it. As an added bonus you can stick around after Idiot for the screening of Annoyance producer Mick Napier’s reality television debut in The Second City’s Next Comedy Legend. Mick has the honor of judging the comedians and will help in deciding which one of them will land a prime tour co. job… in Canada. Mazel tov.

Idiot: A love story in Pieces, Sun 9:30 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 4840 N. Broadway, 773-561-4665, $8.

-Rachael Mason