Theatre review: Maisie Adam: Appraisal at Nottingham Playhouse

So a short ice cream break later and Maisie was back. Less chatting to the audience, but still feeling very involved. She talked about hen parties, the stripper she actually thought was a policeman and her recent wedding, then asked why is everyone obsessed with asking when you’ll have a baby once you are married? When you announce a baby’s birth, why do you add the weight? You don’t say happy 20^th birthday Tracey, 16 stone, so why with a baby. Maisie wants these social media posts to include a photo of the baby being held like men hold fish they have just caught. That’s the only way it makes sense!

Maisie told us how she recently visited Sweden on a tour. She thought it would be great as it regularly tops lists as one of the happiest places to live. But it was a weird crowd in Sweden. They ask too many questions and want factual information. She told a story about catching the bus the night before - ‘Which bus?’ ‘Where were you going?’ ‘Why didn’t you get the train?’. Maisie said she’s not too bothered about checking the facts and she thinks this is how she ended up snogging a barista from Rotherham, not a barrister from Rotterdam,

Maisie said she felt she had finally made it as she was the answer to a question on Pointless. But didn’t feel great to find she was a pointless answer and the bloke guessing who she was from a photo thought she was a young Rod Stewart!