Dreams can become a reality if you’re Bianka Ismailovski. Channelling her inner Miss Scarlett from Cluedo, Bianka does the iconic character proud because let’s face it, Bianka is just that girl.
Settling in with a comedy purely on her experiences, Bianka Ismailovski: Working Girl draws on her rich personality blending in her past experiences with an abundance of self-confidence and a deep self-love she has to offer.
Bianka’s unique storytelling drives humour in the most traumatic of life experiences and that’s okay. With her reflection and triumphs of everyday life, she showcases her ability to turn even the most challenging experiences into opportunities for laughter, allowing us to see how all of it has shaped her.
Bianka is a powerful, self-loving girl who fully embraces her confidence in doing what she loves – comedy and sex work. She owns her choices unapologetically and expressed herself with such authenticity, you can’t help but love her for it. This magnetic presence and stigma breaking presence makes it very hard to not re-think the ideas that has been embedded into our mindset.
Bianka makes it clear she’s been that girl since December 31st, 1999. Her mother wasn’t even surprised when she chose to embrace her dream of becoming a sex worker. Instead, her response was a mix of amusement and approval: “Well, Bianka, you’ve been giving it away for free all these years. It’s about time you’re getting paid for it.”, drawing great laughter through the audience.
Implying that comedy is her form of self-validation, Bianka humorously tackles topics from her father’s death, motherhood and the unique sessions she has had as a sex worker. With unapologetic wit, she makes it clear that there’s no shame in embracing your kinks.
You want to be a bird watcher but for breasts? That’s okay. Journaling to rank top breasts of the year? Don’t forget to get descriptive. If you want to use a carrot? Don’t rob her of this experience and let her pick out her vegetable. There’s nothing worse than shopping the odd bunch out of pity. That crushing weight of motherhood? Forget it, Bianka hates kids. Just ask her mummified BABY born. It’s probably still underneath her childhood bed if that room still exists. Pity fuck? She’s cutting back. Accidentally wound up on a date with a 19-year-old? You’d only accidentally cum twice or they’ll end up as your tech guy at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Weird requests? Nothing’s too weird, but if it is, opt out.
Offering the audience a humorously intimate look at her experiences as a sex worker, Bianka invites the audience to live through her journey. With her fierce, female-empowered passion, she shatters the stigma surrounding sex work – it’s more admin that you’d think. Bianka allows us to see that there’s more humanity behind the work from its preconceived notions and celebrates doing what she loves.
Bianka is very conscious of her darker humour which likely stems from her father’s death escaping Y2K, her hate for Father Joe (father who? daddies only) and her self-awareness to avoiding any plays that may land her in the Daily Mail again.
Bianka Ismailovski shines in Working Girl with her genuine and relatable storytelling which invited us to not only laugh but gain impactful insight on being a sex worker. Sex work is real work.
Don’t miss out on Bianka Ismailovski: Working Girl now playing as part of 2024 Melbourne Fringe at the Chinese Museum: Education Space until October 12th.
For more information and ticketing, visit:
https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/bianka-ismailovski-working-girl
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