Lisa-Skye – 1900-Lisa-Skye

Comedian and storyteller Lisa-Skye is a unicorn piñata come to life. She’s colourful, vibrant, totally unique and full to the brim of sweetness. She’s also had plenty of weird jobs over the years, leading to a number of interactions with some, let’s say, peculiar characters.

1900-Lisa-Skye tells the tale of Skye’s former life as a dating service phone operator some 15 years ago. In the age of MSN Messenger, Avril Lavigne and the Burberry renaissance, call-in hook-up services were all the rage, and Skye was at the desks trying to bleed the wallets of cheating husbands. There’s really nowhere else that a story like this will be told, and Skye delivers with characters and punchlines abounding. Tonight, she’s reading heavily from the script in order to keep the show moving, and while her persistence doesn’t go unnoticed, it does detract from Skye’s immersive allure as a performer.

1900-Lisa-Skye may be a little rough around the edges at this stage, but the radiant positivity and infectious energy of its performer is what carries the show through. Her simultaneous takedown of toxic masculinity while celebrating vulnerability amongst cis males is no easy feat, yet Skye manages to see not just the black and white in the world, but every neon, glowing rainbow sparkle in between. Her outlook on modern identity and relationships is not unique, but it is one that is hardly being heard on stage at MICF. Her voice is a celebration of the underrepresented people of the world, and a reflection of how she herself fits into the ever-growing spectrum. While already enjoyable, the show too has plenty of potential, and will only get better and better.