a best-man speech that goes totally off-the-rails where you get to play the wedding party
Winner – Best Comedy, Hollywood Fringe 2024
What People Are Saying
“one of the most ingenious one-man shows I have ever seen.”
— Tony Frankel, StageAndCinema.com
“a calculated, perfectly timed slide into insanity that convinces you this could really happen to anybody under the wrong pressures.”
— Elliott Lam, Wellyott.com
“From the moment he steps on stage, Vigeant commands attention with an energy that is both frenetic and infectious. His comedic timing is impeccable. And his ability to improvise with the audience adds an extra layer of spontaneous hilarity to the show”
— Eloise Coopersmith, GiaOnTheMove
“The highlight of the show… is the Best Man solo dance… It is right up there with Ricky Gervaise’s jaw-dropping animalistic dance in The Office.”
— Dave Smith, TheatreReview.org.nz
“Mark Vigeant give[s] a solo performance that define[s] the phrases Tour-de-Force and comedy masterclass.”
★★★★★ Tom Ralphs, TheReviewsHub
“If conventional comedy is your cup of tea, this is a nightmare.”
★★★★★ Mark Fernyhough, FernyhoughArtsReview
“Overall, the experience is rich and tailored for every audience member. The show offers slick, safe, fun, bonkers, interactive joy. ”
— Tara McEntee, TheatreReview.org.nz
“Vigeant creates comedy chaos at its chaotic best”
Platinum Medal, Ernest Kearny, TheTVolution
“He somehow managed to make us like him… mainly because the awful best-man speech is full of victimhood and somehow deeply engaging, and an amazing performance.”
— Duncan Sarkies, Culture 101 podcast
“The kind of laughing where you think you might just lose it completely.”
★★★★★ Susan Sloan, SMUReviews
The Best Man Show is an interactive and darkly hilarious wedding reception where Mark Vigeant plays the groom’s brother Paul, who has been asked to give the toast at an untraditional polyamorous commitment ceremony.
It starts out fun and silly, with your typical masculine roasting and ribbing – and slowly devolves into a drunken existential crisis where Paul tries desperately to understand what it means to love, but can’t get over his own toxic masculinity to recognize how lonely he is.
