NURSE GEORGIE CARROLL: SISTA FLO 2.0 - REVIEW

Nurse Georgie Carroll immediately sets the tone by asking us why we are there on a Sunday night when we could be earning loads of money – a nod to the NHS pay enhancement a Sunday night shift would bring. Then jokes we all probably don’t know what day it is anyway. Yes, the majority of her audience is nurses, probably because most lay people believe doctors have the better stories, but you’d be wrong! Nurses are with their patients for 12 hours straight in a hospital ward, with doctors visiting patients for just a fraction of that time.

Carroll, who has been a nurse for 20 years, and now resides in Australia, reached the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent this year. This hour-long stand-up set is fewer anecdotes and stories from her nursing career and more jokes about the general experiences of nurses, and the day-to-day aspects of the jobs.

An array of other healthcare professionals are the butt of Carroll’s jokes; midwives get thanked for caring for patients for the first hour of their lives before handing them over to nurses for the next century. She speaks about the attractiveness of physiotherapists, and how although it’s a multi-disciplinary team, the ratio of work to each profession is unequal – speech pathologists just throw a biscuit at you and see if you’ll choke, yet get paid more than nurses. Even Florence Nightingale is thrown in as Carroll jokes about how she didn’t have to document any of the care she provided.

Carroll confidently commands the stage and fills her routine to the brim with great comedy. Her set is polished and well rehearsed, she incorporates audience members into the set at times, which works well. Although it may be specific to nurses, everyone will understand and appreciate the jokes. I am a student nurse, so this show is right up my alley and it did not disappoint. I have never laughed so hard, the tears rolled liberally down my face, it really is an exceptional hour of comedy – I don’t have a single note, just go and see it!

Nurse Georgie Carroll proves that laughter is the best medicine and you cannot miss your dose!

Find all our Ed Fringe 2023 content here!

Click here to find tickets and info for all Edinburgh Show!

{🎟 AD – PR invite – Tickets were gifted in exchange for an honest review}

A PISSEDMAS CAROL – REVIEW – LEICESTER SQUARE
by Amy Rye
The infamous Sh!t Faced Showtime are back in London with a festive edition, they have taken Dickens’ classic and put a drunken spin on it. The formula is the same as other iterations of the Shi!t Faced shows, one member of the cast has been boozing, and this time it is John Milton who plays Scrooge. Before the show, half a bottle of Jim Beam, some wine, and beer have been consumed in the previous 4 hours. The rest of the cast, try to keep the show on track, also aided by James Murfitt as the compere, Charles Dickens. The … More A PISSEDMAS CAROL – REVIEW – LEICESTER SQUARE
A CHRISTMAS CAROL – REVIEW – ALEXANDRA PALACE
by Ellie Preston
Spine-tingling yet heart-warming, Mark Gatiss’s retelling of A Christmas Carol truly encapsulates the haunting atmosphere of a Victorian ghost story, balanced out with enough humour so as to capture the festive season. Led by Keith Allen as Scrooge, with Peter Forbes as Marley, this show is perfect for Christmas viewing. The set design by Paul Wills is instantly captivating, containing stacks of metal cabinets towering over the theatre, moveable by the cast to allow space for other central props like doors, beds and tables. In addition to this, the puppetry design by Matthew Forbes is incredibly clever, adding creepy elements to the show such … More A CHRISTMAS CAROL – REVIEW – ALEXANDRA PALACE
A WOMAN WALKS INTO A BANK – REVIEW – THEATRE503
by Tom Carrao
The title of this winner of Theatre 503’s 2023 International Playwriting Award by Roxy Cook may seem like the set-up to a joke, but the narrative that unspools is instead an affectionate, gently barbed and at base quite sobering portrait of three ordinary souls (and one restless feline) adrift in modern Moscow. There is much affable, satirical back-and-forth commentary on the accepted myths & stereotypes of the Russian spirit & soul. Beset by the indignities of age, opportunism, graft, fatigue, the characters orbit one another, doomed to play out their roles in an unjust, predatory and saturnine universe. The play opens … More A WOMAN WALKS INTO A BANK – REVIEW – THEATRE503
PETER PAN GOES WRONG – REVIEW – LYRIC THEATRE
by Amy Rye
Peter Pan Goes Wrong first premiered in London at the Pleasance Theatre in 2013, and earlier this year the show made its Broadway debut. Now the production is back in the West End for the Christmas season. Following on from The Play That Goes Wrong, in this production, J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan is staged by the fictitious Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society and goes awry, disastrously so. The meta-comedy is filled with slapstick comedy, sometimes the humour may be predictable and silly, but it’s universally funny throughout – there is something for everyone here, and the laughs come thick and fast … More PETER PAN GOES WRONG – REVIEW – LYRIC THEATRE
GHOST STORIES BY CANDLELIGHT – REVIEW – SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE
by George Rennie
Drawing heavily from the classic canon of the British supernatural, HighTide’s trio of contemporary Gothic narratives uses traditional storytelling formats to address contemporary themes. Directed by Elayce Ismail, reverent musical interludes accompany tales of apparitions and nighttime conjurings that speak of women from the East of England. Unfortunately, the effect is less chilling and more lightweight, with conventional structures, predictable plot twists and an over-reliance on external forces to drive narrative shoring up some of the less relatable aspects of the genre. Nicola Werenowska’s The Beach House, perhaps the cleanest of the three tales, tells of a mother and daughter’s … More GHOST STORIES BY CANDLELIGHT – REVIEW – SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE