| 06 August 2011
Have you ever considered what song was number one when you were born, and in the years thereafter whenever something seismic happened in your life? Wendy Wason has, and she has the playlist to prove it (complete with Gareth Gates and the Kumars—yusss!). Indeed this intimate show of reminiscences rather delicately traces her life from her birth in 1970’s Edinburgh right up to her present condition as blooming mother-to-be, again, in 2011—soundtrack and all.
Sitting in this audience is a completely different experience to what one typically expects of a Fringe comedy. Gone are the booming microphone and jacked-up performer slapping on the jokes and tearing apart some poor, unsuspecting audience member like soft bread. Instead, there is Wendy, with her own very humane and inclusive brand of humour, openly confessing her most embarrassing and treasured memories. So relaxed and maternal is the resultant atmosphere that one almost feels as if she were your primary school teacher reincarnated (without it being deeply strange, of course).
Yes, if you want a comedy with lashings of pizazz and smuttiness that will make your ribs ache with laughter, then this is not the show that you are looking for. But, should you be the type who finds the quirks and mortification of family life and the awkwardness of growing up easy fodder to have a chortle over, then this will suit you nicely. Too tame perhaps, but still a worthy show.
Wendy Wason’s Flashbacks, The Stand, 4-28 August (except 15th), 3.30 pm
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