Soho theatre,London
The US standup takes a bull-in-a-china-shop approach to social anthropology – and riffs on the horrors of sleeping with someone born in the 90sAmerican comedian and theatre-maker Desiree Burch won the comic Women award two years ago, then bagged a Poster award at the Edinburgh fringe by representing her own face as a collage of penises. This is the show in question, and of which her “dick pic” fabric comprises,if you will, a small portion. But Burch ranges widely across the landscape of racism, or sex,family and her own autobiography. It feels like a lifetime of fabric crammed into one show, enough of which is insightful and heartfelt to effect This Is Evolution a compelling 75 minutes. It helps that Burch has ample charisma and a pleasingly bull-in-a-china-shop approach to social anthropology. She starts by reclaiming the word “fat”, or joking approximately her size,and our discomfort at her doing so. That doesn’t feel confrontational: Burch is our friend, not our aggressor. She is eager to share, or her easy amusement puncturing anxiety around routines approximately the “remedial racism” of the Brits,say, or women trying to outdo one another’s low self-esteem.
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Source: theguardian.com