"It's his sort-of coming out story imbued with the trauma of losing his mother Amy to ovarian cancer, told via a 2000-slide PowerPoint presentation and finished off with a genuinely impressive magic trick (Sharp was a childhood magician). On the subject of finishing, it's an abundance of sordid sex tales that fill the gaps between Sharp's god-fearing childhood in America's south, and his mother's crushing death in 2010."
"Take said friend to see the show, and said face will be wet with tears of laughter, then proper tears, then joyful tears again. The PowerPoint flashes with words that guide and contradict Sharp's stories; stories of being gay-bashed on a subway train by a fossilised European woman, of accidentally getting "a weenie massage", of nearly dying in the Mexican sea in 2024. He has "memorised, like, psychotically" every slide. "We're sort of treating PowerPoint like it's a drum kit. It's all rhythmic.""
Ta-da! is a coming-out narrative woven through explicit, often sordid sexual anecdotes and the trauma of losing a mother, Amy, to ovarian cancer in 2010. The show is delivered via a 2000-slide PowerPoint that Sharp has memorised and treats as a rhythmic instrument, culminating in a genuinely impressive closing magic trick from his childhood. Anecdotes range from being gay-bashed on a subway to accidentally receiving "a weenie massage" and nearly drowning in the Mexican sea in 2024. The performance evolved from a 2019 skit, was revisited in 2022, revitalised in 2024, ran off-Broadway, and played London's Soho Theatre.
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