by an nameless visitor critic
Hannah Maxwell is again on the Fringe together with her second present after 2019’s charming I, AmDram. This one is analogous. It’s about what occurred subsequent for Hannah – transferring again to Luton to look after her not too long ago bereaved grandma. A present about 30-something angst, obsession and stalking shouldn’t be charming, however Maxwell manages to make it so.
After seeing Barbara Previ on the telly in Eurovision 2021, Hannah decides she’s going to study French and makes “Le plan” to strategy her and seduce her after a efficiency. Without wishing to spoil an excessive amount of, “Le plan” isn’t notably profitable. She runs right into a stalker of her personal, forgets her Nan’s treatment and finally ends up on a catastrophic night time out.
The dramatic materials for this present is stretched somewhat skinny over the hour, and it joins a glut of exhibits this 12 months about directionless artists of their 30s (see additionally: International House of Vape). However, Maxwell is humorous, self-deprecating and really trustworthy. She has a expertise for fairly brutal self-examination, which in different palms may come off as indulgent. She manages to do sufficient within the opening half of the present to earn the viewers’s belief sufficient that the emotional soul-baring lands properly. There are some actually wonderful jokes, as she units up her relationship together with her Nan, and prepares the bottom for the best way forward. This is a thought-about and achieved second present.
Nan, Me, and Barbara Previ runs by way of 27 August.
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