“Virginia’s become, effectively, a stand-up comedian. Her show is really funny…. I urge you to see it.”
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By Laura Connor (of the York Press)
Virginia Ironside in The Virginia Monologues – Why It’s Great To Be Sixty, The Studio, York Theatre Royal Judging by the demographic of the audience at Virginia Ironside’s delightful stand-up show on Tuesday and Wednesday, you would assume that the target market is lodged firmly within her own age-range: sixty-something. But, thankfully, you would be wrong.
Starting off her career as a journalist and then finding her true home as a sympathetic yet candid agony aunt, Ironside knows how to build a seamless sense of nostalgia with her endless, endearing anecdotes of old age. From sex and drugs, to gardening and dozing, Ironside has done it all; and it has all left her so remarkably indifferent.
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By CLAIRE SMITH
THE VIRGINIA MONOLOGUES – WHY IT’S GREAT TO BE OLD
Link to article at Scotsman.com
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GILDED BALLOON TEVIOT (VENUE 14)
RESPLENDENT in Vivienne Westwood, sixty-something agony aunt Virginia Ironside has come to the Fringe to share her thoughts on getting old.
In her younger years she interviewed the Rolling Stones, Hendrix and Joplin and had her fair share of sex and drugs. “I was cool,” she says. Now bird tables, gardening and playing with her grandson in the park are more her kind of thing.
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The Virginia Monologues: Why it’s Great to be Sixty
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe
(Rated 4/ 5 )
Reviewed by Alice Jones
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Link to article on independent.co.uk
Age cannot wither her
According to Virginia Ironside, doyenne of Fleet Street and agony aunt extraordinaire, one of the myriad pleasures of hitting one’s sixties is the confidence that comes with old age. And one need look no further than Ironside herself for the proof.
At the distinguished age of 65, having eschewed a reading in the cosy confines of the Book Festival at Charlotte Square Gardens or a couple of dates in an “Evening with…” format, reading the odd diary note here, answering the odd question there, the writer has signed up for a full month of stand-up shows at the Gilded Balloon.
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