Xan Brooks 

Me, Myself and Mum review – stereotypical French sex education

Comedian Guillaume Gallienne plays both himself as a boy and his mother in a coming-of-age tale riddled with gender cliches
  
  

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Comedy as a broad as a beam … Guillaume Gallienne, left, in Me, Myself and Mum. Photograph: Thierry Valletoux Photograph: Thierry Valletoux/PR

Fear not if you have never heard of French comedian Guillaume Gallienne: he’s here to tell you all about himself. Me, Myself and Mum (expanded from a solo show) is his confected confessional, recounting our hero’s sexual education as a camp little boy who play-acts the girl for the benefit of maman (played with gusto by Gallienne in drag). The comedy is as broad as a beam and occasionally misjudged: Gallienne has no qualms about using reductive gender stereotypes to wage all-out war against reductive gender stereotypes. Still, there’s a sincerity to the clowning and a personal truth behind the burlesque. Half-hearted thanks for so much oversharing.

 

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