Review: Yozi: No Babies In The Sauna

We all know that rules are made to be broken but for Aussie clown Yoz Mensch, adhering to the rules of comedy directly correlates to gaining an understanding of life and the function of societal norms. Their debut solo hour No Babies In The Sauna is like a fever dream – alternating between stories of being a clown school dropout and solving the great mystery that is the science of comedy, with Yozi gleefully taking us along on an unhinged ride towards their growth. 

Clowning is serious business, as Yozi demonstrates, when adopting the guise of their elderly French ‘clown mother’, who imparts the fundamentals of clowning. But the shenanigans accelerate when Yozi dramatises an attempt by AI to write a sketch about a baby in a sauna, which leads us nicely to a pickle jar and some spilt milk, as well as a particularly goofy Airbnb story. 

Yozi is a genuinely loveable performer who embraces whimsy in their approach to clowning. Don’t expect anything profound or illuminating, but if silly sketches and increasingly odd anecdotes are the way to your heart, Yozi will no doubt win you over and take you to disco mountain.