Comedy review: Louise Reay: Que Sera
Star rating: ***
Venue: Just the Tonic at The Caves (Venue 88)
This year’s show has a rather lovely narrative. It is Reay’s tenth anniversary the day I see it and the show celebrates – with the help of a very dodgy Zoltar fortune telling machine, a few choruses of Old MacDonald Had A Farm (Chinese version) and a lot of audience participation – how she met her husband. It is a lovely, light-handed way to tell a love story. We even get a chance to win the Chinese Lottery. I didn’t.
Reay is a delightful, almost childlike performer and the chaps she picks from the audience go willingly to their onstage roles. Alexei is a beautiful baby, but a difficult feeder, and a particular highlight is Perry (with whom she is sharing a romantic pizza) who leaps into action when she chokes but, instead of patting her on the back as she indicates, enthusiastically performs the Heimlich manoeuvre. A man becomes a seal, we all become ducks and everyone is very, very happy.
Until 28 August. Today 3:20pm.