[NoHo Arts District, CA] – A NoHo Arts theatre review of Gaslighting is My Love Language, written and performed by Fielding Edlow and directed by Ashley Ward at 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Fielding Edlow is a writer, actor, and stand-up comedian based in Los Angeles. Pure Wow recently named her “one of the six funniest women in Los Angeles right now.” So creating a brutally brilliant one-woman show about leaving her husband of 13 years and why she had to seems like a natural progression for this incredibly talented woman.
Gaslighting is My Love Language feels like a fine stand-up monologue. A woman on the verge of change, finally recognizing how trapped she was by shame in a marriage to a man who she loved but didn’t like. Sometimes fear makes the best of us bad and fuelling her low self esteem and lack of confidence in anything worthy she could do was the bad bad thing this man became.

But Fielding seems to be getting a little revenge…in her success. With her brilliant writing, in her Can’t Say Slut show streaming on Amazon Prime, her own monthly show Eat Pray F*ck at the Hollywood Improv, her multiple plays produced with Naked Angels, NY Stage & Film, Circle X Theatre Company, NY and LA Fringe Festivals, and Comedy Central Stage. And with her solo show Coke-Free J.A.P. once a New York Fringe show, now 30 30-minute comedy pilot at Showtime. Wow…not too shabby.
And here she is at The Hollywood Fringe with this brilliant, fearless, bitting victory monologue about becoming who she always was all along. She packed the theatre the night I was there and the audience was eating her up…so to speak. This is brazen bold material. Vulgar, funny and exquisitely truthful. This is what you wish you had said to whoever you left or whoever left you. It’s not cruel, interestingly. She even has some fondness still for her ex. And honestly, she doesn’t need to eviscerate him, she’s able to make her life and this show work better without doing that. They do have a child together who also plays a part in this show in searingly accurate teenage glory.

Fielding careens from marriage to dating to work and family. She opens her life up and shows us all the funny, sad, regretful and damaged bits and it makes for this strangely incredibly hopeful upbeat and insanely profound profanity drenched hour of life as she knows it.
Fielding Edlow has the kind of rare talent that requires attention. She’s this gorgeous, fiery, sexy warrior woman who you want in your corner. I wish I could call her up when I need some piss and vinegar. We should all have her on speed dial actually…is that still a thing even?
Gaslighting in My Love Language is a brilliant brilliant solo show. Just straight up hilarious, wise and wicked stories that feel true in every sense. I absolutely loved this show. What an amazing woman, what a phenomenal talent!
There are three more nights to catch this show!!!
Where:
The Hudson Theatre
6539nSanta Monica Blvd, Hollywood
When:
Tuesday, June 25 at 8:30p
Friday, June 28 at 8:30pm
Sunday, June 30 at 3:30pm
Tickets:
https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10388?tab=tickets
When: Tuesday, June 25 at 8:30pm, Friday, June 28 at 8:30pm, Sunday, June 30 at 3:30pm
Where: The Hudson Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood
Tickets: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10388?tab=details