Dillie Keane has been growing old disgracefully but charmingly for 20 years now, flaunting it with diamante-and-sequins satirical trio Fascinating Aida and occasionally in solo shows like this. Back With You, drawing on both new and old material, is obviously aiming for a niche market, following straight after an early evening performance of The Vagina Monologues and played on the same pink and red upholstered set - "the vulva estate", as Keene slyly puts it. The show kicks off at 9.15pm, which still leaves plenty of time for the audience to get back home for cocoa and the late book on Radio 4.
Right down to her Joyce Grenfell vowels, Keane has always had something of the Angela Brazil schoolgirl about her. She may go on in bad girl mode about the hangovers and the broken relationships, but she's no Jenny Eclair, more like an older, wittier Bridget Jones who can sing. These 70 minutes hark back to a more civilised era, when cabaret meant women in evening gowns. This is very much an evening for grown-ups, not the Comedy Store crowd.
The theme is growing older, and Keane is waspishly funny if somewhat predictable on the subject of collapsed faces, collapsed egos and collapsed affairs. She's at her best when she gets serious: songs such as Look Mummy, No Hands - about how daughters turn into mothers before they know it - and Late Love, with its affecting autumn crocus motif, have an emotional truth because they are unfettered by the need to make us laugh. Keane may send up the women's magazines, but she often sounds like a musical version of one of those columns where some daffy woman tells us about her dizzy domestic life.
So much of the material has been written with Keane's Fascinating Aida colleague and great friend Adele Anderson that you rather wish she was there as well. The pair would be an enter- taining double act. But Keane is an old trouper who can more than hold the stage alone, or with the help of her accompanist Russell Churney. And it is rather cheering to see a funny woman on stage who is actually acting her age rather than pretending she still hasn't got over the loss of her Raleigh Chopper and the arrival of her first period.
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