Barbara Nice: Fun – Waterside Arts
Barbara Nice, the stand-up comedy alter ego of actress Janice Connolly, returned to the region of her birth to appear at Waterside Arts with her new tour entitled Fun. The character of Barbara Nice cannot avoid comparisons with Victoria Wood in her housewife persona and Caroline Aherne's Mrs Merton. This comparison is not always favourable.
A Stockport housewife, cleaner to the stars, the entire act is a caricature of a northern homemaker of thirty years ago with most of the comedy feeling like it could have been performed then too. Even then it would have felt dated. There are occasional more modern notes, but the majority of the show is very much based on the era of the seventies and eighties. It is very much a woman of a certain age with a principal target aud...