Spencer relates the tale of how she and her partner set about buying a house, and the sorry state of the place they finally managed to afford. Requiring a considerable amount of DIY, the house also had a macabre secret to reveal. The story is well constructed and the gags keep coming along regularly. A few don't quite hit the spot, but the success rate is more than enough to keep the audience on her side.
Then her life, and the show, takes an upturn when she is commissioned to write a 2014 Fringe show for a celebrity she's never even heard of (neither had I). After an initial meeting there's a conscience wrestling moment where she has to decide whether to accept the compromises of working with someone so delusional, or accept that was where her career path needed to take her. Fortunately, both for her ability to buy some carpets and the joke rate for this show, she goes ahead with the project. The subsequent events and the misbegotten final product of the liaison are woven into a hilarious narrative that made the final half of this hour fly by.
Well worth a look.
Diane Spencer is on at the Gilded Balloon at 18.45 until the 31st.
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