one4review | On 18, Aug 2026

Ania Magliano delivers a highly accomplished hour of comedy. Traversing her dress senseand how that affects her sexuality, her indoor boyfriend and how he’s similar to her phone charging . Pigs and her strange affinity with Churchill. She’s very very funny.

There really isn’t a moment where she isn’t either making the crowd laugh, setting up the next joke or sharing something interesting.

This is tight funny stand-up, nothing mind blowing in terms of creativity but as a piece every joke is delivered with pinpoint accuracy.

The consistency of the laughs is remarkable. The room is constantly laughing, and by the time one wave of laughter dies down, we’re already laughing again.

Much of the show centres around Magliano’s sense of disconnection from her own body, including visits to a sex therapist and a floatation tank. But the real skill is how naturally she talks about it, as if letting us in on a secret, at the same time as saying this is normal right?

She speaks entirely in her own voice and never seems to be straining to be funny. The jokes are extremely well written without feeling engineered, and they’re never at anyone else’s expense.

She’s a confident performer, the crowd work is smooth and there’s a genuine warmth to the whole thing. You get the sense that she’s actually sharing something of herself rather than simply constructing material around a subject.

One audience member leaving said he felt like he’d been “seen”, because Magliano had touched on so many things he’d experienced himself. I didn’t particularly connect with those issues personally, but it didn’t matter: her comedy is strong enough on its own.

The final Churchill section is particularly fun. The room seems to go slightly onto the back foot when Magliano reveals that she likes Churchill, but she has more than enough charm to pull everyone back onside.

I think for anyone that feels their body isn’t as connected as their head – this will be a truly great show.

****1/2
Reviewed by Stephen “Sharpie” Sharp
Various Venues and Times