Women over forty are an easy target for advertising campaigns with face creams, incontinence pads and anything else which undermines them ageing with pride and not disappearing into an invisible realm. The amount of negative advertising and press towards us needs to stop.
Nana Funk has had enough and wants to be heard loud and proud. Although getting older isn’t necessarily fun with the grey hairs, hip replacements, and menopause all these don’t mean we don’t still have a voice and purpose. Why should we just accept it and be ashamed?
There’s an element of audience participation during the show and the audience are asked to make song subject requests before they come in and a few are picked out at random. Every show will be slightly different as the subjects change. Although one was too risqué and Nana Funk refused to read it out.
Nana Funk is the Nana every child needs (deserves) in their life, speaking out against what has become the acceptable “norm” and drawing attention to the fact that ageing needs to be seen as a privilege, not an embarrassment where we hide away and apologise for still being here.
Being in the (well) over forty clubs so many of the themes and external prejudices made against women in that group I related to wholeheartedly and the internal rage Nana describes is gently simmering away daily.
The show offers humour, music and a huge dose of self-worth to those feeling overwhelmed and undervalued by an advertising world who quite frankly haven’t got a clue what many ladies of a certain age want and need to rethink their slogans and consult their target audiences rather than preach at us.
For more information about An Evening With Nana Funk please use the links below.
Four Stars.
https://www.praguefringe.com/programme/an-evening-with-nana-funk-solo-show/
https://www.nanafunkrocks.com/about-1
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