Showing @ Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh until Sun 24 Aug @ 17:05
Teching her own free show in a tucked away cave-like recess of Cabaret Voltaire, while another alarmingly loud performance occurs on the other side of a very thin wall, Sarah Campbell’s position could be more comfortable. Despite this, her stand-up show Don’t Worry Guys It’s Sarah Campbell is performed with confidence, intelligence and wit.
With an (comedic) identity centred on a “13-year-old boy” versus “lesbian-hipster” counterbalance, she displays the same plethora of neurosis common to most comedians. In fact her show is all about “worrying”. From behind thick-framed glasses and through lenses of cynicism she offers a dry and somewhat bleak outlook of the world. Deconstructing a gentrified, “liberal”, middle-class she exposes the superficial nonsense of which it is comprised. Her humour is neither preachy nor unoriginal, however, the same could be said for other comedian’s material on a similar theme.
It’s refreshing to see a female comedian whose comedy doesn’t focus on this fact. Campbell is ferociously quick and her show is delicately constructed. She has been vastly undersold (again) at the Fringe this year.