Broadway In Chicago Presents BOOK OF MORON Review — Truth Can Be Stupid

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Robert Dubac, creator and star of the show, stands center stage in everyday garb. From the second he walks onto stage until the minute he leaves, he delivers to us his one-man monologue about truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth—specifically the truths that have been fed to us and we must unpack from our cultural and social understandings.

Trapped in a coma following an accident, Dubac tasks himself with getting out of said coma by figuring out the truth to life itself, or what the umbrella term truth really means. To aid his journey through the four levels of truth, Dubac’s inner voices—reason, common sense, inner moron, inner child, inner asshole, and his scruples—swap interchangeably to convey to us that life, both ours’ and others’, is nothing more than what we believe to be true, without giving any critical thought toward it.

The political, social, close-to-home, edgy, don’t-go-there, and informational is thrown at us at lightning speed throughout the course of the 80-minute show. Dubac’s performance felt at times more standup than performance, as he’d pitch a joke and wait, or tease us, for our response. In this performance, the fourth wall is nowhere to be found; it is just him and us, or as he put it “There’s about 200 of us here. So what? That’s about 120 brains?”