Orlando Fringe 2025
Poems for God
Victoria Watson Sepejak
Genre: Clown, Comedic, Comedy, Experimental, Surrealism
Venue: Blue Venue
Festival: Orlando Fringe
Low Down
Sepejak saves all women in sixty minutes. Or at least, tries to… and in that attempt, the futility of art itself is revealed.
Review
Poems for God has an ambitious goal: save all of womanhood in sixty minutes. To do this, Victoria Watson Sepejak has collected four poems that are certain to save women. These “poems” are not poems in the traditional sense but insane absurdist asides that are pointless, stupid, and confounding. How is the town of aborted fetuses meant to save all women? Can rollerskating, strip dancing and getting lotion squirted on their face really be the answer? Why am I laughing so hard? What’s the point? And yet, in these questions lies the brilliance in Sepejak’s Poems for God.
Poems for God is about how art is inherently a Sisyphian task. No matter how hard you try or how good or profound a work there are limits to how much theatre can truly change our world. We push the art up the mountain of change knowing it will inevitably fall backwards. Groups of people make change – not art. Art simply inspires. This is a profound message hidden under layer and layer of stupid bits and clowning.
The show is really broken into two parts. The first is the more grounded section. An audience member plays Sepejak’s dad as they embark on a winter adventure up a mountain. This part explored childhood innocence and was a charming opener which subverted expectations. The second is the overall premise described earlier: four poems to save all women.
Sepejak is a hilariously absurd clown. She shifts between dry humor and sticky coconut lotion with ease. Sepejak sets up jokes well in advance and makes frequent callbacks. The funniest of which involved “the pedophile catcher” investigating an audience member forcing them to show their most recent photo. Any section taken on its own is simply nonsense. Together, it still is but you realize: that’s the whole point. No show can save all women but Sepejak encourages us to continue to try.
