Energetic evening of enigmatic entertainment.
Jordan Gray has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe stage and taken it by storm once more with a rousing second installment to her famous musical comedy set. After letting it all hang out on live TV, and subsequently winning a BAFTA, the ballsy performer treated the audience to a packed hour of music, stand up, and witty repartee. Relishing in her own personhood and brilliance, Gray unapologetically threw every criticism of her personhood back at the audience. In a creative bit of queer apologetics, Gray had the audience in stitches while also liberally supplied with tampons.
This set, quite literally, took inspiration from her experience of receiving death threats and other negative private messages for her appearances on live TV. Gray in perfect comedic fashion though requested that if anyone had intentions of “doing a murder” to do it on live TV where it really counts instead of at the Fringe. Acknowledging the criticism of her gender legitimacy, Gray expressed her love of womanhood and how little the opinions of others matter. She did acknowledge one experience which she wished she could engage with and went to extremely comical lengths to achieve it. Lamenting her inability to join in the female comradery of helping sisters in need of female hygiene products, a rousing callback ended the show with a dramatic fake murder and tampons throwing session.
An utterly human exploration of fame’s benefits and hindrances on self-expression, Gray’s energy and command of the stage cannot be described as anything but explosive. She knows who she is, what kind of artist she wants to be, and the audience loves her for it, or, at least they already paid to see her set so it doesn’t matter to Gray in the slightest.