5-Step Guide to Being German

Paco Erhard—WECC Acu Hall

Paco Erhard’s show is a delight. Paco relates personal stories, and challenges stereotypes by playing to the Winnipeg audience with jokes about Slurpees and Regina. The show is less a step-by-step instruction on how to be German as the title suggest, and more a discussion of culture and identity.

Much of Paco’s humour revolves around German cultural identity and the difficulties of being German, yet so much of the material is utterly universal. The hour goes by far too quickly.

Paco’s energy and sense of delight were infectious, though the crowd was a little quiet when I attended.

The jokes are quick, the humour is clever and the performance is wonderful.

(And, I heard tell there will be a hold-over show Monday night at 8, so there’ll be another chance to enjoy this fabulous performer.

Christina Fawcett