Isobel Rogers brings her debut hour show How to Be Content to the Fringe festival this year. Rogers is a singer songwriter comedian who throughout her show, armed with her guitar, shoulders the burden of being a hyper millennial (otherwise known as: the millennial condition), dealing with topics that all millennials are tasked to wrestle with in 2024; polyamory, the probability of child rearing and whether she can live with her mum forever (pretty please).
The show is jam packed with musical content, made up entirely of songs with only a few lines to break them up – sitting Rogers firmly on the musical end of the spectrum of musical comedy. One of the songs (Queen Midas) addresses Rogers’ desire to produce content on social media, which would allow everything she touches to turn to gold.
Packing 12 songs into 50 minutes, it appears Rogers already creates content prolifically. Queen Midas describes the temptation of the shiny, easy life of an influencer – the free meals, holidays and clothes – but under the surface, there are moments of mischievous social commentary; the weaponization of self-care, self-serving feminism, and the obligation of posting one photo of yourself crying in an album of 11 smiling to show you’re hashtag real and honest (promise xo).
This theme continues as Rogers gets through her variety of songs, which include a pop rock Leonard Cohen inspired track about her polyamorous boyfriend, a softer ballad on living life as a fatherless girl, and a spoken word style rap that is an ode to the thankless role of the maid of honour.
Rogers’ style is confident yet vulnerable, with moments of quiet sincerity, silliness and playful solipsism thrown in.
Isobel Rogers’ show How To Be Content has finished it’s run at the Fringe this year, but you can catch more information about her upcoming shows here.
