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It's a Motherf**king Pleasure

 
Rebecca Vines Review by Rebecca Vines 5 Published: 7 Aug 2023 Underbelly, Bristo Square Show Dates: 2 Aug 2023-27 Aug 2023

This is a brilliant show.

Just book the tickets now and go and see this show

You can stop reading there, if you like, because the next couple of hundred words are just going to stack up the superlatives. But if you want to know exactly why you need to add this to your ‘must-see’ list of Fringe shows this year, stay with me.

The fundamental conceit of the piece is that an inclusive theatre group are making a piece about ableism and diversity.

So far, so worthy. There are even captions, a BSL interpreter, exhortations to check our privilege and audio descriptions. So if, unlike the rest of us luvvies loafing about the Fringe, this is likely to bring you out in gammony hives; you might prefer to stop at home with one hand down your Y-fronts and another in a packet of Cheerios watching 1970s sitcoms on loop.

And yet, this is no dry, earnest piece whose only value lies in earning you Woke Points for sitting though it. It is clever, irreverent, shrewd, naughty, caring, and very very very funny.

Its charm and ingenuity lies in the sophisticated way in which the cast juggle their clear passion for equity with a keen acuity for deflating the pompous, risible or just downright cringey. Perhaps aided by the fact that ableism is one of the newer kids on the accessibility block, the jokes are fresh and original, and come thick and fast, spilling over themselves with a wonderful sense of confidence and ownership not always a given at the Fringe.

It would be hard not to love this show. In fact, so delighted was one of the audience members in front of me that at many points, it was a toss up as to whether he would trigger an asthma attack, a hernia implosion, or a ventricular episode just by laughing so much.

Please, just book the tickets now and go and see this show. Although arguably a niche premise, it is structured to be open for anyone with a healthy sense of humour and intellect. In fact, it really is a motherf**king pleasure.

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Usually disabled people want to do the right thing. But what if they don't? What if they were out to make as much money as possible from the guilt of non-disabled, anxious people (like you)? Hot off the back of their smash-hit VAULT and Soho runs, multi award-winning, disability-led theatre company FlawBored present a scathing satire on the monetisation of identity politics that spares no one. Winner of VAULT Festival Show of the Week and nominated for two Off West End Awards. 'Witty, hilarious and absurd' (DisabilityArts.online). **** (BroadwayWorld.com). ****½ (Reviews Hub).