Your new roommate is a French voice in your head who hijacks your senses. Cancer is the easy part.
Orlando is dying. Resigned to his fate, all he wants is to be left alone with his alcohol, drugs, and hermit crab. But his hopes of solitude are shattered when he is woken by Jean-Luc, an incessantly chatty Frenchman who happens to be a voice in his head. Now, in addition to cancer, Orlando must deal with Jean-Luc's never-ending questions and commentary, as well as the discovery that Jean-Luc is slowly taking over every sense of his body (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch).
Acting
Trent Ford's physical comedy selling a one-man invasion
Writing
Jean-Luc's dialogue somehow makes narcissism charming
Sound
The voice mixing that makes you check your own ears
Director
Nathan Adolfson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Trent Ford performed many scenes twice—once clean, once reacting to pre-recorded dialogue—to nail the timing of being hijacked.
The hermit crab metaphor isn't subtle, but it lands: Orlando keeps trading shells rather than facing the ocean.
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