By Lisa Clark
Sez is a country girl in the city reflecting on being in the world for a quarter of a century. Being a cabaret performer, she mostly does it in the form of comedy songs.
Sez has a very bright, confident, charming personality. She can hold the stage and warms the audience up with some silly call and response but there really isn’t a lot of singalongs so don’t worry/get your hopes up. Sez is a very good singer and excellent musician, playing her amusing comedy songs on three different instruments.
Most of Sez’s humour is fairly self deprecating and skims lightly over her topics, without any type of through line, the songs are short and end abruptly without a punchline. Sez, unsurprisingly, sings about all the issues of a person in their 20s, living in a share house, relationships and dealing with nasty social media comments. It’s amusing to watch a 25 year old reminiscing about being 20 and how young that is and there seemed to be no irony. It was hard to tell because Sez is pretty chirpy and upbeat throughout. Even when singing a scathing rebuke to a cheating boyfriend.
Keeps Me Young is a bit scrappy and waffly and it’s sometimes hard to work out the point she is making but it’s certainly entertaining throughout. Sez says that we’re all here for a fun time and that’s what she presents, nothing too deep, no story line just a kooky collection of amusing anecdotes and songs.
Sez performs Keeps Me Young at the Victoria Hotel until April 20.
https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows/keeps-me-young/