Deborah Frances-White’s How to Get Almost Anyone to Want to Sleep With You

Published Monday 6 August 2007 at 11:05 by Duska Radsavljevic

Deborah Frances-White is an extraordinarily talented woman. Not only is her show guaranteed to make you laugh and get your juices flowing, but she will actually send you away believing you are James Bond if you are a man, and feeling good about believing you are a “Scorsese movie in a hat” if you are a woman.

I don’t want to give away all her jokes - and in fact that would be impossible as her best bits are actually made up on the spot - but suffice it to say that her proposed theories of what makes the other sex tick, however absurd, are most irresistibly compelling. Coming across as a combination of a sexy drama teacher and your favourite aunt in a ridiculous hat, Frances-White is endlessly quick-witted and entirely non-threatening. As a result, not only does she have no problems getting volunteers out on to the stage, but it’s almost a drag getting the crowd out of the auditorium. In any case, one thing is certain - in this show you’ll have a lot of fun - and who knows - you might even pull.