Review: Pam Ann, Journal Tyne Theatre

by Gordon Barr, Evening Chronicle

 BEING on board a Pam Ann trip is like no other flight you are ever likely to take.

That is good if you are not a very good air passenger – but I have to say long hauls and even short European journeys would be a heck of a lot more fun if we had her stewardessing up and down the aisle.

The creation of Australian comedienne Caroline Reid, anyone who has ever flown will get the humour here – no-one is safe, but her fellow air attendants are her main victims.

There were plenty of them in the audience at her Journal Tyne Theatre show in Newcastle and they lapped it up.

I don’t think I have ever been to a more camp show – and that includes Julian Clary at the same venue two weeks earlier – and it all made for a fun-filled evening.

Much of the night was improvised comedy and Pam Ann’s razor-sharp tongue let loose on her (un)suspecting victims with aplomb.

British Airways hostesses took most of the ribbing, but Thomsons, Thomas Cook, easyJet, flybe and Virgin certainly did not escape.

Pam Ann touched down and more than left her mark with her takes on people behaviour, habits and manners. It was a case of fasten your seatbelts as it was a bumpy ride – but hilarious too. I could have done with the act being cut a little, as the material faded towards the end, but it didn’t spoil a thoroughly enjoyable evening.