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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

Nova review – female Casanova’s very ordinary escapades

Obehi Janice in Nova.
Everyday litany … Obehi Janice in Nova. Photograph: Stuart Armitt

Obehi Janice had friends at school who, like her, were academic and nerdy. She fancied boys at an early age – and also at an older age and, while we’re at it, more recently still. She is not very good at yoga and went on a nice trip to Paris and likes the music of Sir Shina Peters.

She is fascinated by all of this – why we should be, too, by such a commonplace list of experiences is a moot point. The Los Angeles-based writer and performer delivers this everyday litany with the polish and confidence of a seasoned standup but were it not for the willingness of a first-night audience to whoop along, this feeble material – complete with hard-to-gauge US references – would look exposed.

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