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Recorded outside, in a Brooklyn courtyard in 2020, Gianmarco Soresi has crafted a perfect time capsule of the COVID era, referencing the pandemic throughout, without wallowing in the contemporary performer’s pity. His is a stoic silliness with the cynic comic resignation one might expect from a New Yorker. Along the way he puts his white guilt to good use as both well-meaning ally and offhand oppressor, with a tone and pace that suggest early Woody Allen after multiple Mochachinos.