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The Virginia Monologues at The Studio, York Theatre Royal

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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Scotsman review of The Virginia Monologues

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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