Best known for her TikTok presence comparing the French and the English, Tatty Macleod’s show plays to her strengths. Swaying and swaggering through a series of anecdotes about being an English girl in France in her formative years, Macleod uses her whole body to elicit hearty laughs, particularly from French members of the audience. She skilfully slips between the two languages without leaving any section of her audience confused. 

Across an hour, Macleod insults both sides of the Channel, picking on a few audience members, but each jibe and joke comes across as good-natured rather than offensive. We’re introduced to her formidable mother, a series of French lotharios, English lads, and a crotch-led Parisian waiter, the characteristics of whom Macleod takes on like a chameleon, resulting in guffaws and the odd tear of laughter. The over-arching theme is one of identity, and there’s a tinge of melancholy to her feeling both French and English while not quite being accepted as either.  

By the finale, it feels as though Macleod has woven the audience into her in-jokes, as we all laugh together at Pam the American tourist bumbling through Paris. Some of the observations are a little obvious, with jokes about the differences in French and English flirting tripping into the realm of repetition. But Fugue is a delightful hour of comedy for the French and English; or for anyone who has simply had a shit time in Paris. 

Tatty Macleod: Fugue, Monkey Barrel, until 27 August, 2.10pm.