one4review | On 10, Aug 2026

In the hothouse of a cargo container, something special is brewing. And it’s not just the kicking Grace Mulvey is about to give wanky IPA names in her set. Something wickedly funny is about to this way come.

Grace arrives fully formed and ready to rock, and the reason for the title soon becomes clear. The show’s thread is about looking like her Dublin parents — in this case, particularly her dad — and the circumference of the cranium. The hard time at school, neighbours and relations all saying the same thing, that uncanny resemblance following her around for most of her life. But it’s also about the stories and the journey, and how she deals with the back and forth with an audience proves no one can spin a yarn quite like Mulvey.

She ducks and dives into other subjects, including society’s pressure to conform to certain body stereotypes, which she gives the two-finger salute to. It’s refreshing in its honesty and the way she delivers it. Highlights include growing up as a millennial and themed WhatsApp group names, which is a hoot, before moving onto her move to London and dating outside her tribe, with a Southern Englishman particularly getting it in the neck. The attitude and sassiness is killing the audience.

What you are left with at the end is a show about all the things that make us who we are, the silliness of family, the emotional payback of love and kicking against convention when required.

Last year’s show was great. She’s onto another spectral plane with this one, and proves that with her range, she may be the finest Irish comedian working in the UK at the moment.

4 ****
Reviewed by Steve H.
The Box at Assembly George Square
Until 30th August
15.00 – 16.00