20th August 2007
JANEY GODLEY- DOMESTIC GODLEY
by Duska Radosavljevic
It's easy to warm to Janey Godley. For a start, the moment you set foot into her show, she'll adopt you into her extended family and tell a little flattering story about you to the rest of the 'relatives'. There are no hidden agendas to this gesture, she just seems to enjoy a very friendly rapport with her audience. Her satirical material focusing on Brown, Blair and the Glasgow Airport terror attacks certainly requires no emotional bribery to be appreciated - she will indeed tell it like it is and you'll find it hard to disagree. It is the second half of the show that treads a slightly tricky territory of deprivation, violence and drug abuse, and it involves her own family. This year Godley is the age her mother was when she was killed by her lover in 1982. Her brother is currently battling AIDS and cancer, and Godley herself can't shake off a few of her own unhappy memories. Audience laughter is punctuated with guilty gasps of horror, but they still demand another story when the show comes to an end. And Godley happily obliges. |