Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Obehi Janice’s one-woman show collects her adventures in the dating game but they don’t lead anywhere that interesting
Obehi Janice had friends at school who, like her, were academic and nerdy. She fancied boys at an early age – and also at an older age and, while we’re at it, more recently still. She is not very good at yoga and went on a nice trip to Paris and likes the music of Sir Shina Peters.
She is fascinated by all of this – why we should be, too, by such a commonplace list of experiences is a moot point. The Los Angeles-based writer and performer delivers this everyday litany with the polish and confidence of a seasoned standup but were it not for the willingness of a first-night audience to whoop along, this feeble material – complete with hard-to-gauge US references – would look exposed.
