2011 Edinburgh Fringe

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Edinburgh born Wendy Wason may well become the first comedian to give birth mid-show, but, chances are, she'd even make that hilarious. Taking to the stage eight months pregnant, Wendy isn't shy about opening up to an audience. Flashbacks, her third solo Edinburgh Festival show, is her most personal yet, as she guides the audience through her life so far and proves that getting older is the best thing that can happen to a person. Youth is for the young, but great sex, a sense of self and the confidence to flick the Vs at life's bullshitters are the rewards of age.

Oozing charm and with a decidedly naughty twinkle, Wendy is a natural and engaging performer. Flashbacks is a tour through her life so far, from being a kid in the 1980s, discovering boys in her teens and reinventing herself at university, before becoming an adult and all the stresses that entails: marriage, kids, divorce and finally getting to grips with being yourself.

Before turning her hand to stand-up comedy, Wendy was already known as a consummate actress. In 2000 she played an obsessive Bill Hicks fan in Brit-flick Resurrecting Bill and her impressive CV includes roles in Taggart, The IT Crowd, Midsomer Murders, Coupling, TittyBangBang and even a turn alongside Johnny Depp in the film The Libertine. In 2008, she took part in hit NBC show Last Comic Standing.

Later that year, Wendy made her Edinburgh solo show debut with the very well-received Things I Didn't Know I Didn't Know, following up on the show's success in 2010 with her second full hour Wendy Wason In Other People's Secrets. However, her first real turn at the Fringe was in 2001 when she starred in Trevor Lock's play What You Really Want, alongside Sarah Kendall and Phil Nichol.

She grew up in Edinburgh (though now lives in London) she even worked for a couple of years at the Gilded Balloon's box office, Wendy's actually been an Edinburgh Festival stalwart for more years than some of the young comic bucks out there have been alive. As Flashbacks sets out to prove, it takes someone who's lived some to have any kind of decent - and funny - musings on life. Sexy, sassy and a proud gob-on-a-stick, Wendy Wason's got life experience in bucketloads. Prepare to be very amused.