Sarah Franken review – smart, scabrous satire, if not jolly3 / 5 stars
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/nov/08/sarah-franken-review-smart-scabrous-satire-if-not-jollyThe Guardian
Brian Logan
Sunday 8 November 2015
If you've come expecting a confessional show about gender transition, Sarah Franken tells us, you're in the wrong place. Sarah was once Will, and cultivated a niche reputation for dark, dreamlike satirical comedy.
Franken stays in that territory with her first show post-transitioning, give or take a couple of anecdotes illustrating her new public life as a trans woman.
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As with Franken's earlier work, this is a smart, scabrous set – if not a jolly experience. She doesn't do convivial: her comedy can feel as if it's being performed in her bedroom, or her head, delivered in spite of rather than to its audience. In this solo but luridly populated sketch show, the sketches don't begin and end, but bleed in and out of one another, sometimes so quickly you're not quite sure what you saw.
