SNL UK and Taskmaster star on tour

Touring off the back of the triumphant first series of Saturday Night Live UK, Ania Magliano plunges relatively deep into the recesses of her hang-ups, but with a very light touch indeed.

Her breeziness lends Peach Fuzz an air of amicable conversation through what could be uncomfortable subject matter for her. But the flip side of that easygoing attitude is that some routines – and indeed the whole show – feel as if they could land with a little more impact. 

Saying she has a problem with climaxes would be an unfortunate double entendre, however, given the hour is about the distant relationship she has with her body, especially when it comes to intimacy. It’s a typically British condition, she concludes, playing into the national trait of emotional and physical repression.

She wishes she had the sexual confidence of Sabrina Carpenter, who at 27 is just a year younger than Magliano, though they seem far apart in so many ways.  Even more alien is the sex-positive influencer she encountered boasting of an uninterrupted run of 27 orgasms – surely too much.

The former Taskmaster contestant is disarmingly candid about her inhibitions, happy to share, as if with friends. A chatty vibe runs through the hour, from the heat-based admin up top, through to audience interactions which feel as if she’d rather follow the genuine chummy conversations but has to stop to remind herself she’s at work.

Connections are formed from when she breaks the ice with references to how she dresses – shirt, tie and jorts tonight – and what very narrow class of men that attracts, all while introducing some light identity markers for later: late Gen Z, bisexual, nerd-adjacent, in therapy…  

Childhood obsession with the Sylvanian Families of woodland folk rather than the more sexualised Barbie sows the seeds for her future attitudes in the same way apparently random asides about, say, Churchill, seed callbacks.  As well as robust structure, her badinage conceals more insight and confession than first appears, while good jokes are in decent supply to tag most of her stories and observations. 

Solutions to her issues involve literally taking a long hard look at herself in the mirror, and a session in an isolation tank that seems to have been undertaken for the sole sake of a jolly anecdote about how badly she coped with the solitude.  Whether she saw the light after being in such darkness isn’t completely resolved, but it completes an entertaining hour of navel-gazing. 

• Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz is on at Soho Theatre until Saturday, then touring, including a run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Ania ​Magliano tour dates

Review date: 30 Jun 2026
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett
Reviewed at: Soho Theatre