The chosen venue, a small room within the Green room, is certainly suited to the performance. Small, cave-like, hot and steamy it feels so intimate, like we are entering Jessica’s own womb.
Jessica is a confident and beautiful woman who appears to have taken a keen interest in her own sexuality and is happy to share her thoughts on the matter.
As she begins her first live song singing the words, ‘if my vagina could talk…’ we get the impression the vagina, in her eyes, is its own separate entity and deserves all the attention that she gives it. This notion seems supported by the dialogue between herself and the larger than life vagina that accompanies her for the show.
As a performer she is skilled in her art. Her voice is a pleasure to hear that bares more than a passing resemblance to a young Joni Mitchel, sweet and powerful, and it compliments her clever, humorous and satirical songs beautifully. The audience giggles uncontrollably throughout and loudest at a song about leaving her partner due to their inability to give good oral sex.
Jessica Delphino is an artist and an entertainer. She senses her audience’s mood and works with it. It would be interesting to see her play to a larger audience as the impression is that there is a lot more to this woman than a small hot room and a small sedated audience.
4/5
Rhada Bishop
