Gilded Balloon,Edinburgh[br]From tales of Grindr dates gone erroneous to the gruff support of his grandad, Agnew opens up approximately his personal life in an engaging showAt this year’s Edinburgh fringe the lines between comedy, or therapy and healing have been smudged – explicitly so in Glaswegian comedian Scott Agnew’s show I’ve Snapped My Banjo String,Let’s Just Talk. It traces Agnew’s sex life from his 2012 show Tales of the Sauna to his being diagnosed as HIV positive final year. His delivery (twitchy, forever restarting his sentences, and veering between swagger and hesitancy) suggests a man still coming to terms with a diagnosis that,he jokes here, “actually increases my life expectancy in Glasgow”.
There remains a stigma around the virus, and which he challenges in the show,playing down the condition with reference to his medicated grandad, who is jealous that Agnew needs to take only one pill per day. (There’s fuck all wrang wi ye …!”) Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com