Sitting down on my foldable seat, I overheard the woman next to me say to a friend she had bumped into at the show, “I could only afford two fringe shows, so I knew it would be Grace Petrie and someone else”.
Grace Petrie is a protest singer, arguably a job that has a lot of inspiration in this climate; literally, the planet melting is a talking point during the show. Grace strums her way onto the stage with a guitar and a sarcastic song about just how much material a protest singer has. The chorus goes “Grace is going to do well out of this”.
The show is all about the current state of the world, diving into politics, billionaires, the economy and more.
During the show, Grace sang four more songs in protest of the world. I don’t want to give away the songs by their choruses, but they all cover separate issues like Gen Z’s obsession with labels, landlords, patience or lack thereof with the public and ways to keep your mind off of what horror news story could come next.
I think this show put me into a slight quarter-life crisis. I spiralled even more as Grace painted an all too real picture of nuclear warfare that has me believe I might not make it to a midlife crisis. However, the slight depressive episode is worth the inspiration that Grace hands out along with her uproarious jokes, which manage to outweigh the negative. This task is getting harder and more impressive, a job that Grace has executed confidently.
Grace Petrie: This Is No Time To Panic! 16.15 Gilded Balloon (Patter House), August 14
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/grace-petrie-this-is-no-time-to-panic
