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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