The dates on Catherine Bohart’s new tour are being advertised, she tells us, as “relaxed performances”. Eyebrows arch. Bohart is not a relaxed performer – and Again, With Feelings is her least sedate show yet. It’s also her best, a firecracker of an hour about the push-and-pull of settling down in your mid-30s, particularly when you’re queer, stressy, and knee-deep in the wreckage of relationships past.
Neither the subject nor the 35-year-old’s approach to it is especially innovative. But this is as big-hitting as straightforward autobiographical standup gets, a set in which compelling personality (and complete mastery of that persona) meets line after line packed with unexpected jokes, whipsmart backchat and animated expressivity. This is Bohart even further on the front foot than we found her in 2022’s This Isn’t for You, when the Irishwoman’s manic chatter was applied to her experience of enduring a breakup under lockdown.
