Accord­ing to the Inter­na­tion­al Com­edy Fest­iv­al 2014 Uto­pia can be found at Kitty O’Shea’s, on Cour­tenay Place, from 8:30pm for the next two nights.

Accord­ing to Adam Wright, the comedi­an put­ting on the show, Uto­pia can be found by fol­low­ing his 10 simple answers to the world’s biggest prob­lems.

In a show that cov­ers everything from reli­gion and enter­tain­ment, par­ent­ing and poverty as well as crime and pun­ish­ment Adam wel­comes us to a world where the worst things are no more and pleas­ant­ness, with the help of sci­ence and his hours of research, is at our fin­ger­tips.

Adam gets laughs from the audi­ence without being offens­ive – it’s superb, obser­va­tion­al hil­ar­ity that, while point­ing out some hon­est truths, leaves you feel­ing pos­it­ive. For a moment I feared we were headed for a dis­astrous Ray­bonesque moment when talk of get­ting off buses after women arose. How­ever, Wright was clearly con­scious of his audi­ence/an-audi­ence-with-any-decency-at-all, and made self-deprec­at­ing jokes that spoke to me, as a male aware of the priv­ilege I pos­sess simply by being male. (Should­n’t good com­edy make you think?)

We were told before enter­ing that we’d leave the show know­ing that human­ity has been saved. I’m not sure that we’ll be saved, or what exactly we’ll be saved from, but I do know you should see this show because Wel­ling­ton com­edy has a good shot at being anoth­er weapon in the city’s artil­lery in defend­ing this fair land. The oth­er weapons being the wind and the con­tinu­ous pres­ence of far too many politi­cians.

To Uto­pia and bey­ond!