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Sikisa: Hear Me Out comedy review – Raucous and vivid stand-up

Brassy show with a barnstorming physical finale from an act whose SP is distinctively U

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Sikisa: Hear Me Out comedy review – Raucous and vivid stand-up

If you can only find time to see one immigration lawyer who also happens to be a burlesque-dancing comic at this year’s Fringe, the personable, resourceful Sikisa is a one-stop shop to satisfy all potential needs. Sikisa seems to have carved out a specific USP as her route to comedic glory; she’s aggressively funny and has already won the room over long before that wild burlesque finale which had the audience on their feet.

Hailing from south London, Sikisa has lived through some tough times, and as a result she gets right up in the audience’s grille, taking no prisoners and offering practical tips to spice up the sex lives of a rather shy crowd. But her confident sense of her own sexuality is only part of a vivid self-portrait that ranges from a recent dyslexia diagnosis to her own attendance at some rather funky-sounding sex parties; at her lowest point, Sikisa has even dated a magician, so there’s absolutely no holds barred in terms of what she wouldn’t do for love.

Hear Me Out is a brassy, vivacious show from a performer who takes an obvious pride in herself but offers plenty of compelling evidence about the trials and tribulations which make up her off-stage lifestyle. Sikisa may rely on some standard stand-up tropes, but her presentation is often explosive, with the kind of raucous style that suggests that she’s on the verge of bigger things.

Sikisa: Hear Me Out, Monkey Barrel, until 27 August, 7.50pm.

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