T alk about a hot flush: menopause, and its peri-predecessor, have gone in no time from being The Great Unmentionable to a favoured subject of middle-aged female comics. After Bridget Christie, whose treatment of the topic evolved into a hit TV series, and Desiree Burch’s midlife cri de coeur at this year’s fringe, here comes Kerry Godliman with her own take on hormonal chaos and entering “the crone zone”. If its subject matter no longer arrives with the shock of the new, Bandwidth is distinguished by the live-wire energy of its creator, erupting with impotent fury as her youth, sangfroid and most of her self-respect pass into foggy memory. Kerry Godliman looks back: ‘If my parents hadn’t laughed so much at my jokes, I wouldn’t be doing what I do now’ Read more

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