‘This is going to be brilliant,” Jordan Gray tells the audience, as she settles behind her keyboard. She’s not wrong. Is It a Bird? is a gorgeous, accomplished and deeply funny hour of comedy combining Gray’s musical talents with nuanced, creative standup.
Next to her keyboard is a red phone box – the type you might expect an undercover superhero to slip into, emerging seconds later in a mask and cape. The show’s title neatly captures Gray’s Essex roots, her experience as a transgender woman and her love of superheroes. Why is it, she asks, that so many people take issue with trans women, but “the whole world has no problem with Bruce Wayne identifying as a bat”?
