Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Appropriate Adult

Kiri Pritchard-McLean has a delightfully dark sparkle in her eye, one that bagged her the Chortle Awards Best Compere and Best Club Comic earlier this week, and that endows her with the confidence of every one of her audience members knowing that if she goes off on a tangental whim it’ll be worth the wander.

As a quarter of dark and twisted humour sketch group Gein’s Family Gift Shop Pritchard-McLean is not averse to mining the comedy seam less travelled, not flinching at material others fear to tread on. But woven through is a real concern to do good – to be good in the world – from feminist ideals to committing to volunteer youth work on a very real basis, which is where the main story for this show comes from.

She’s skilful, she’s entertaining, she’s very funny in that way that makes you laugh at something you never thought you’d find funny, and she’s a bit inspiring, sending us all out into the chill night with an agitation scratching at our social conscience. A class act.

The Old Market, 21 March 2018

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