“What’s your favourite phallus?” asks performance artist Sophia Cleary in her fringe set It Gets Worse. A contender comes in the form of the super-sized Titan leaf blower that features down the road in Until Death, directed by Cleary and written and performed by Nalini Sharma, a fellow LA comic making her Edinburgh debut.
The device is wielded by one of three audience members brought on stage to help Sharma, in the breathy guise of wine-swigging “Marilyn Merlot”, recreate the subway grate scene from The Seven Year Itch. Handheld and floor fans are also directed between Sharma’s legs as, halter-top dress billowing, she swaps Monroe’s carefree delight for a series of ribald, pleasure-seeking demands.
