“[The] narrator bemoans the fact that high-end shops are closed, complemented by stark black-and-white shots of domestic spaces, [in a] stylized fashion, [which] makes you laugh. [Vinay will] make you feel queasy or uncomfortable or angry. [He’ll] make you feel many of these things at once”
— Holly Warren, NewCity Art
“He plays the fashion victim ("having the right things meant that people would like me"), the fashion nerd (he describes a pair of "lunettes" as having "second-generation Chanel hinges") and the wannabe.
He accessorises his beard with a blonde wig: "I don't want to be a rich white lady, I just want the things they own; like long shiny blonde hair.
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Objects stand in for racist attitudes: his rich white lady character knows that "Carrara marble is better than Calcutta marble".
— Janet McAllister, The New Zealand Herald
“Vinay dips in and out of pop culture pastiche, existing in the liminal space between eccentricity and instability where both our deepest desires and greatest insecurities threaten to spill from our mouths.
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— EXPRESS MAGAZINE, New Zealand
“Starring and created by Vinay Hira, the show is a mixture of performance and installation art that takes place inside a white, v-shaped set. From the constantly shifting stream of video projection to Vinay’s highly GIF-able facial reactions, the experience might best be described as a live interpretation of a Tumblr feed dedicated to high-fashion. ”
— Nathan Jones, Theatrescenes, New Zealand
“Vinay Hira does not just say what we are all thinking but instead says what we are all saying. He brings out our own words and meanings, lets us chew on them, see them unfiltered to understand just how ridiculous they are.”
— Dr. Curtis Lubbe, BFA, PhD (Ecology)