Riled Up and Wasted On Light

Buddy Wakefield&emdash;Artbeat Studio

Somehow I get the feeling that everything down to the venue was picked and used specifically to enhance this performance. Wakefield is particularly good at grabbing your attention and keeping it, whether it’s through a poem or through a tangent (or in one case, a tangent of a tangent).

Everything he says is in equal parts hilarious and frightfully true. His sense of humour and timing is amazing, and he really knows how to talk to the audience, and how to make them feel welcomed and even relaxed during the show.

He just really knows how to perform, and if you like poetry of any kind (even if you’re not a huge fan) he’s quite something to watch.

Arden Pruden