Orlando Fringe 2025
The Heterosexuals
Redheaded Stepchild Productions
Genre: Comedy, LGBTQIA+, One Person Show, Solo Performance, Solo Show, Stand-Up
Venue: Scarlet Venue
Festival: Orlando Fringe
Low Down
Deeply profound (and absurd) stand-up comedy about those terrifying… ugh… straights.
Review
Dear Johnnie McNamara Walker:
Please consider this review your formal cease and desist letter. I find it appalling that you stole my life-story of being a once red-headed, sexy, former dancer, and incredibly special child traumatized by the heterosexuals and their appalling lifestyle choices. While you gave an impeccable performance all at Orlando Fringe need to see, I cannot allow this to stand.
All right—in all honesty—Walker’s new solo show, The Heterosexuals, is a brilliant, hilarious, relatable, and fast-paced romp through the ways heterosexuality haunts queer people. Walker brings us into his ‘heterosexual-free space’ and asks: what the f*ck are we going to do about the straights? Tapping into the shared hive mind all queer people share (as you know), Walker taps into the root of the LGBTQ+ experience.
Walker hits on deeply vulnerable and relatable topics of queerness. The piece explores stereotypes, masking, and the absurdity of ‘straightness’ in the 21st century. Any LGBTQ+ person will be able to relate to Walker’s anecdotes of a young person needing to blend into an increasingly gendered and homophobic world and eventually escaping into their truer self. His revelations that LGBTQ+ people exist between many different genders, sexualities, and masks hit particularly hard. The divide between our homosexual and heterosexual selves, and their mutual hatred of one another, is the greatest trap of all. Only in mending this self-hatred can a queer person find self-love. This is deeply profound, and yet, told with absurd descriptions, anecdotes, and jokes.
Walker is fiercely talented and undeniably deserves the standing ovation at the end. His work is intensely relatable, profound, honest, and downright funny.
