Natalie Perlin: Attack Of The 36 Triple-G Woman comedy review – A persona with potency
Upending expectation is the name of Perlin’s game in an edgy dance with her audience’s tastes

Natalie Perlin introduces herself by actively encouraging the front row to look her in the breasts, not the eyes. And so follows a tirade of humorous self-aggrandising and several mentions of buttholes and OnlyFans in a naughty, giggly hour of comedy.

There’s a slightly unstructured sense to the narrative, though there are a few welcome callbacks. Anecdotes meander and repeat in places. It feels as though the show is on two levels: one for the lads who are here for big tits and sexual innuendo, and a clever, absurdist level that plays with images of smothering Hitler to death during sex to become the new, glamorous poster child for anti-Nazism.
Perlin’s set is definitely edgy and the audience visibly winces at some of the Anne Frank material. Like a spoiled child who’ll never be told no, she talks her way out of trouble, building a hilariously self-absorbed persona that one hopes is only for the stage.
Natalie Perlin: Attack Of The 36 Triple-G Woman, TheSpace @ Symposium, until 19 August, 11.20pm; TheSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 August, 10.40pm.