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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Kate Wyver

Titclown: Daddy’s Little Girl review – a smart swipe at the mess made by men

Performer Jessica Aszkenasy embraces a figure with an orange fabric-covered head, wearing a dark suit
Bare-faced bravado … Jessica Aszkenasy’s Titclown: Daddy’s Little Girl is at Summerhall, Edinburgh. Photograph: Rebecca Need-Menear

After the 2025 debut of her breast-forward stage persona Titclown, Jessica Aszkenasy’s second grubbily smutty clowning show rolls around sardonically in daddy issues and the messy disappointment of men these days.

The straight dating pool is running dry. All this clown wants is a boyfriend, but none of them are enough like her father. As voice notes to friends unpack the feminist implications of wanting a man while generally disliking them, the Philippe Gaulier-trained clown wriggles around on the floor in an oversized suit with something bulging down below. Directed by Cecily Nash, Daddy’s Little Girl is divided neatly between these two forms: half wry analysis told with a bitter laugh, half nude-heavy clowning that bares its teeth at the ease with which men command praise, affection and power.

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