Comedy: Zoe Lyons - Mangled Mantra of the Messed Up Modern Mind

ZOE LYONS – MANGLED MANTRA OF THE MESSED UP MODERN MIND
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD (VENUE 33)

ZOE Lyons has a series of mantras to get her through the day, and in an environmentally doomed, credit-crunched world, she wants even more. This, at least, is the premise by which last year's if.comedy best newcomer nominee justifies the inner torments that inform her petty irritations with life.

From failing to sell her flat, to a 16 times the national average carbon footprint, she taps into universal concerns with an easy delivery that allows her to slip into more personal material without it feeling indulgent – as with her humbling experience of buying champagne glasses in Tiffany's. She's equally capable of blinkered snobbery herself, as she expresses in a fine routine about production of ethical foie gras. There's a distinctive originality here, but she affords her darker thoughts full rein with a story about witnessing the birth of a child's bitterness on Boxing Day and her resentment at not finding a corpse while walking her dog.

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