Blessed with an unusual, if unenviable story about how she became a stand-up, Róisín McCallion's life appears a constant battle with preconceptions. Dry and sardonic but with a devilish gleam in her eyes, she understatedly blazes with frustration, with a great line about appearing exotic as a northerner at a posh university. 

As a queer woman growing up in Halifax, she has decidedly mixed feelings about the town belatedly celebrating Anne Lister's progressive 'modern' lesbianism following the hit BBC drama Gentleman Jack. And as a football fan, she's particularly confusing to the heterosexual men hitting on her, even as, amusingly, she feels a certain kinship with top-level male players. Meanwhile, she's also very much the outlier in her cutely conventional, settled family too.

So McCallion projects social misfit. However, despite having suffered from an eating disorder, she was always alive to the dark humour in her treatment, with even the bleakest exchanges throwing up laughs. Somewhat stiff in her delivery, the neurodiversity McCallion claims comes as no surprise; her quirkiness as a performer is matched by her slightly awkward rawness. 

You get the impression of a comic still finding themselves as a person, just starting out as a storyteller. Several of her tales hint at greater, more idiosyncratic depths to be explored as she gets slightly overwhelmed by so much identity baggage. With experience, she'll hopefully sharpen her focus.

Róisín McCallion: Keeping Up Appearances tours until Monday 17 July; review from Van Winkle West End, Glasgow, Saturday 25 March.