{"id":2755,"date":"2013-08-12T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2013-08-12T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:48:12","slug":"good-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"Good Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lying naked on the terrace\u00a0in the white heat of the Greek sun, listening to the Ashes on the BBC, thinking of the day\u2019s imminent first Campari and Soda. How could things be any better? Here\u2019s how: our Mae in Edinburgh forwards the following review of her one-woman show, Slumber Party. One is such a proud parent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/100699_article.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2756\" alt=\"100699_article\" src=\"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/100699_article.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mae Martin Slumber Party<\/p>\n<p>5\/5 stars<\/p>\n<p>Review by Vonny Moyes<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/theskinny.co.uk\/comedy\/fringe_2013\/305471-mae_martin_slumber_party<\/p>\n<p>Published 12 August 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard not to like Mae Martin. Spending an hour with her and claiming otherwise would be like saying you hate ice cream or are really for fascism; frankly, it\u2019s just wrong. Bounding into the room, she sparkles from the moment she takes the stage, and quickly brings a warm, sleepy room to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year she\u2019s cast her guitar aside, and is back with an hour of solid stand-up \u2013 a brave departure for a young comic whose clever musical style is so loved. It works. Despite angsty teen material, it\u2019s intelligent \u2013 she has an uncanny ability to reach everyone in the room with anecdotes and a scarily good impression of a certain vacuous pop-whatever, clocking up stacks of big laughs. She recounts growing pains with perfectly in-step gestures and an impeccable flair for killer throwaway lines. It\u2019s genuine and at ease. Affable but expertly timed. This helps when she delves into slightly more personal material; she&#8217;s vibrant and her confidence keeps it light-hearted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe finishes with a brilliant song, delighting the room; after an hour of chat it feels like a real treat. She\u2019s awkward and neurotic, yet it\u2019s an undeniably feelgood hour. A natural comic talent, and if this is how good she is now, we\u2019re in for something very special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mae Martin: Slumber Party, Underbelly Cowgate, 5.10pm, 10-25 Aug, \u00a310.50\/\u00a39.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lying naked on the terrace\u00a0in the white heat of the Greek sun, listening to the Ashes on the BBC, thinking of the day\u2019s imminent first Campari and Soda. How could things be any better? Here\u2019s how: our Mae in Edinburgh forwards the following review of her one-woman show, Slumber Party. One is such a proud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameschatto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}