Dirty Diana

The multi-talented Dirty Diana performs her new comedy show at this year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival, currently running until the 21 of April at the Storyville Cocktail Bar, in the CBD.

Dirty Diana pumps the crowd with ‘high fiver’ fever, bursts onto the stage heralding all the way from Springvale and reminds us that her story comes in three phases. Diana Nguyen weaves titular story-telling with a refreshing energetic flair that connects homegrown family dramas with perpetual boyfriend problems.

She offers a unique platter of humour that is original, thought-provoking and very entertaining. Her mother is a central thread; an original boat person from Vietnam who only wants the best for her daughter. Thus begins Diana’s first phase - the nagging mother reminding her to “put it in”, blatantly crude and obvious, she simply means get married and have kids, before it’s too late. Diana, too busy reveling in her wild choices of one-night stands and past boyfriends, lashes out with riveting sordid detail.

She is open and confrontational about her marginalized position as a typecast Asian extra on TV shows, while embracing her much loved role as the Wedding Singer for rich Asian people that comes with its own bag of demanding constraints. She fights for her own cause and the right to break down the Asian female stereotype, offering new and exciting ways to understand her cultural background with a bold and strong voice.

Flora Georgiou

Photographer: Evie Lynn Photography