Lou Sanders : Hello To Your New Step-Mummy, Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

There are problems associated with trying to review a show you've had difficulty hearing.  It wasn't especially noisy, and my hearing problems haven't returned.  It was Sanders herself I had difficulty making out.  A combination of an accent (London?) I found too foreign to tune into, and talking so fast that the enunciation blurred, made it hard to keep up with what she was saying.  So this might be a bit harsh...

...But I hardly laughed at all.  Others did, well some others did, so clearly Sanders has some appeal, but you need to be able to understand her first.  There was a Trump joke that was pretty decent, and some lines about relationships that raised a titter, but her main schtick was about making herself seem unlikeable, and she came a bit too close to succeeding.  Not that the material is all that poor - the tales of the massage with a happy ending and dating much, much younger men both had seeds of humour - but the delivery is, to this reviewer at least, dull, flat, almost boring.

The merch, shopping bags with Vote Labia on the side, were good.  But not good enough for me to be able to recommend this show.  One to miss.

Lou Sanders : Hello To Your New Step-Mummy is on in Monkey Barrel until 25 August  (several dates are already sold out).