Kerry Godliman: Wonder Woman

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Kerry Godliman pushes her superhero analogy all the way in her second Fringe show, and by doing so shows she comes on leaps and bounds.

The 37-year-old comedian, mother and actor (her credits include BBC2's Home Time and a part in Ricky Gervais' forthcoming sitcom Life's Too Short), is a woman who wants it all and, coming from a post-feminist family background, she was allowed to aspire to that aim. But the reality is somewhat different, and keeping a happy attitude—as personified by at least two of her favourite yoga teachers—is tricky when all you feel like doing at the end of the day is conking out with a glass of wine in front of YouTube videos of cats doing the funniest things.

In a beguiling and vivacious show Godliman discovers that aping her childhood superhero might not be that realistic for all sort of reasons, from not having an invisible plane to being too emotional and wilful for crime-fighting duties. That said, her conspiratorial children seem to be determined to give her something to think about on the home front – namely the theft of her sleep.

One thing that is certainly super is the cracking pace at which Godliman sets off and, as with so many eloquent acts, she has a lot to pack in. By and large she does this with aplomb and doesn't tend to run over her punchlines, many of which are sharp, sassy and succinct.