COMEDY
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Roisin Conaty: Destiny’s Dickhead
Pleasance Courtyard

Conaty’s life is ‘a bit shambolic’. She literally doesn’t know what day of the week it is, ‘hasn’t owned an umbrella for more than four hours’  and ‘is lost 80% of the time.’   From the outset Conaty warms the audience, with a bubbly no-holds-barred exhuberance that tells us that for the next hour, anything goes! She quickly ascertains that the age demographic ranges from 20 – 82 years old, with the oldies on the back row heckling Conaty throughout – in particular around the subject of ‘sex buddies’ ! Conaty’s response sets the tone; a huge smile and guffaw at their front!

This show details Conaty’s fight against her seemingly chaotic destiny.  She is disarray personified, and wants to get it together. Analysing those around her, she is bewildered with people who buy leather sofas; creepy dinner dates with so many candles they’re appropriate only for human sacrifice, and gets indignant about the audacity of holiday bloggers.  She has her own solutions to smoking cessation which do not involve photos of dirty lungs and over-pricing, and she muses about hen weekends and memories of her 12 year old self discovering a hidden porn stash.

An hour with Conaty is like an hour with a very funny friend.  Comedy just oozes out of her, every sentence dripping in a sticky humour that will have you wishing you really did have friends like this.  A fast-paced hour which whizzes by with as much chaos and little resolution as Conaty’s own unapologetic pandemonium.