I documented my love for Ms. Bea on last night's review of The Free Association gig as well as elsewhere on Facebook so I won't belabour the point. Suffice it to say I like her a lot so was really looking forward to this ... hers were the first tickets I bought for this year's Fringe.
Shuffling in with the crowd at the start there was a strange masked woman in a tight onesie dancing "interpretively" to an extended mix of "I See You Baby (Shaking That Ass)". As I passed a few feet from her I resisted the urge to say, "Hi Aisling! Looking good!" I was hardly the only one to recognise her through the costume. And so it turned out. Yay for me. Fair credit to her for having the balls to do it and for so long ...
Anyway, into the gig proper. And it was very funny. She's a funny woman, very engaging and not at all backward in making herself look an arse ("I'm a tart for a laugh!" as she's said previously). Majority all-new material as far as I could tell. Including a very funny bit about her first job after drama school - as a pirate wench in a rock video (which she showed at the end - her part didn't seem that bad to me).
The venue was awful and I was terribly cramped in (feeling very self-conscious as usual that I was negatively impacting everyone around me, especially the poor American lass in front who had to put up with my huge knees in her back). But Ms. Bea was good and we all had a huge laugh. She's excellent and you should go and see her.
CELEB WATCH - In the audience were Clive Anderson (unshaven and scruffy), Arthur Smith (taller than I imagined) and Mickey Flanagan (baseball cap, shorts). None of them recognised me.
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