Jacqueline Novak
(Picture: Getty Images for Reality Testing)There was a real buzz in the room before Jacqueline Novak appeared last night. Her show, Get On Your Knees, has already been an off-Broadway hit, attracting celebrity fans including Amy Schumer, Lorde and Emma Stone. It would be fair to say she blew away her London audience too.
The subject of Novak’s monologue is oral sex, hence the title. But this is no sleazy smutfest. The energetic New Yorker has the soul of a poet and her monologue references literary icons from Nabokov to TS Eliot. It is more about the philosophy of the sexual act than the nitty-gritty, though there is plenty of that too.
