Absolutely No Worries If Not is Ania Magliano’s coming-out present. After an imagined heroic bisexuality disclose to her dad and mom didn’t fairly go to plan, she has a second probability to unveil her true self to the assembled viewers.
Magliano takes us on her journey of self-discovery by way of partaking tales about her Polish mum’s tackle British idioms, bisexuality, persona quizzes, the sinister depth of Lush shops, all-girl faculties, a intercourse occasion that goes awry, panic assaults, and shopping for a cat off Gumtree as a result of she was “frightened of being alone”.
That is the 24-year-old’s debut hour, however she delivers it with the charisma and presence of a veteran performer – just a few late arrivals to this efficiency are dealt with with ease and he or she breezes by way of the present like an affable pal bringing you into her confidence.
Magliano brings a brand new perspective on well-worn subjects. She tells us she’s glad her dad and mom obtained divorced when she was in main faculty, because it introduced her step-dad into her life: “I don’t assume there’s some other means we might’ve met”, she deadpans. On her expertise of all-girl faculty: “The one areas I’m ready for are bathrooms and jail.” And on shopping for a cat after sleeping with an ex: “I don’t know if anybody’s had intercourse that was so emotionally complicated they purchased a reside animal?” Her supply and off-key punchlines pack laughs into each anecdote.
Woven among the many extra basic standup sections, Magliano drifts into the surreal. A massively satisfying diversion begins with Magliano questioning the place all of the horse ladies from her faculty ended up – in any case, you not often see horse girls – and ends with a CGI part-horse Timothée Chalamet bringing the horse-girl saga to cinema screens.
In a piece that will likely be deeply relatable to most twenty- and thirtysomething girls, Magliano wonders what affect Jacqueline Wilson’s darker youngsters’s books have had on her psyche. The viewers helps draft our personal tragic Wilson blurb. She paints a compelling image of the search to be fascinating that many individuals discover themselves on as they method a quarter-century. A formidable debut from a rising star of UK standup.
At Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, till 28 August.
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