Amy Albert’s new comedy creation is a cross between an ageing lounge singer crossed with an even more prescription ‘pilled-up’ Karen Walker of ‘Will & Grace’ fame. At times the similarities are a little too close for their own good but Albert takes the familiar elements of Walker and pushes them to the extreme, carving out an odd, filthy and very funny character.
As Deliliah Dix takes to the stage, propped up against the piano sipping a cocktail in a goldfish bowl, the audience know they are in for a good time.
She sings catchy, sexy little lounge numbers about drinking all your troubles away and having a lesbian affair with Queen Latifa while at the same time, covers some classics like Kirty MacColl’s, In these shoes. Her songs impress and Albert has a decent enough, if not spectacular, voice that has the audience chuckling away to themselves throughout.
Around the half-way mark the show begins to falter, loosing its momentum as Dix has an over long (and judging from the audience’s silence) not especially funny section. Later she slips further telling a long and baffling story about The Olsen twins being her sisters and how they had to become ladies of the night, to get themselves famous. This completely misses the mark and even makes the public uncomfortable in their seats.
Deliliah Dix is a great comedy character, ripe with comedic potential, she can and does regularly have the audience in stitches, but its clear that the show needs a polish and a re-edit before Dix can really make the big time.
3/5 
Martin Miller
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