North West

Amy Webber: No Previous Experience – The King’s Arms

Ambitious opera graduate Amy Webber brings a delightful blend of music, role-play, and a hint of job-hunting to the King’s Arms theatre with her stand-up routine.

Webber opens with a playful sing-through of her CV, interspersed with anecdotes that keep the audience laughing throughout. Her ad-libbed lyrics and charming fumbles on her mini keyboard are reminiscent of a genre-bending act you’d see at Eurovision, mixing humour and talent seamlessly.

With an energetic and quick-witted persona, Webber enacts various occupations, from teacher to therapist, and engages in tongue-in-cheek audience interaction. Among the interesting careers in the audience were an engineer and a skyscraper window cleaner, to whom she offered some frivolous networking pointers. A humorous stint with a volunteer from the audience added even more laughs to the evening.

Radio impersonations provide more chortles, although a couple of segments towards the end felt slightly drawn out, concluding on a less lively note. Nevertheless, Webber’s mellifluous voice is a joy to listen to throughout the performance.

Webber plays one more show at the King’s Arms before taking her show to Blackpool. For tickets please visit https://greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/amy-webber-no-previous-experience/

Reviewer: Brian Madden

Reviewed: 11th July 2024

North West End UK Rating:

Rating: 4 out of 5.
Brian Madden

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