"For Christie has found her happy place: serenely single, professionally triumphant (on the telly too, after years not finding a niche there), and absolved by menopause of the need to give a toss about almost anything. There's comedy in that freedom from care, and Christie mines it plentifully in an entertaining 90 minutes majoring like her Channel 4 show The Change in what life looks like for women (or at least, this woman) when oestrogen gets out of the way."
"Such is life for the fiftysomething female, as Christie would have it: recording her farts for friends on WhatsApp; reporting to her doctor ever more exotic bodily malfunctions; socially invisible and entirely pleased about it. Two anecdotes early in the show contrast eager-to-please young Christie with her later-in-life counterpart the one indulging a date's improbable sexual fetish, the other caring not a jot when her gardener catches her eating cake directly from the bin."
Bridget Christie presents a 90-minute show portraying serene single life, professional success and menopausal liberation that reduces cares and fuels comic material. The performance mixes standup and sketch, using digressions, malapropisms and vivid re-enactments to animate mundane anecdotes. Routines focus on bodily changes, social invisibility, and pleasures of demob-happiness, contrasting youthful eagerness with post-menopausal indifference. The show contains charmed moments yet feels like a placeholder lacking the outspoken fury and clownish fervour of earlier work. The comedian's timing and facial dismay sustain enjoyment, while some routines emphasize chatty, rambling structures over sharper comedic peaks.
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