Fringe review: DOES MY FANNY LOOK BIG IN THIS?, Eleanor May Blackburn - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Photo credit: Brian Wilson

Have you ever been riding a homosapien and asked (internally): 'OMG am I squashing this person like a double decker bus'? or stumbled mentally upon 'Please lord, let me have shaved my nipples'. That right there is sex anxiety, but not the kind where you can't get interested in sex - just the kind where you're afraid they'll be offended by the smell of your fanny. Join Ellie as she navigates a class of 30 adolescents asking her anything about sex; and what happens when they go home?

Written and performed by Eleanor May Blackburn, this is a candid account of the questions we ask ourselves in our teens through to adulthood, because we should never stop learning and we should never be afraid to ask.

Blackburn's performance is just the right amount of witty and serious. Humour is used to cover embarassment, right? And for most, this is an embarrassing subject, but it doesn't need to be. Blackburn makes us all feel at ease, and to be fair, we're learning things!

A joyous lesson that we're all thinking the same thing, so let’s talk about it!

Funny and fabulously honest.

**** Four stars

Reviewed by: Rachel Louise Martin

Does My Fanny Look Big In This? plays in Theatre 3 at theSpace @ Surgeons Hall at 6.05pm until 26 August.