Only one person is apparently unimpressed with Jordan Gray at this year’s Fringe: God. The comedian’s sold-out run has been met with rave reviews, but on the day I see her show, Is It a Bird?, the heavens dramatically open, flooding the stage at her Assembly George Square venue. Once the performance finally starts, it’s with a bucket in the middle of the stage catching drips and an electric keyboard threatening to cut out at any minute. Still, it doesn’t stop Gray. “God can’t hate me that much,” she cackles.
As the title suggests, superheroes are the subject of Gray’s whip smart Fringe show. Her central thesis is that bats are “barely a Halloween” decoration, let alone scary enough to warrant a caped crusader being named after them, but the musical comedian interweaves an exceptionally broad range of other topics. Religion, Ricky Gervais’s love of animals and the culture wars are all touched upon.
