Looking for a fresh perspective at the Fringe? Join Nebulous Niang in SLOMOSEXUAL!

Ever wondered what happens when you're "Happily Married with 2 Kids" and suddenly realize you're... not quite straight?

Let Nebulous Niang take you on her journey from growing up in 90s Asia to navigating life today as part of an inter-ethnic lesbian couple raising Gen-Z kids in a conservative country.

Through honest storytelling and carefully chosen visuals, this hour of standup will make you laugh, think, and maybe even feel a bit braver about being yourself - no matter who you are!

What audiences are saying:

"Heartfelt, Funny, Touchingly Introspective"

"Inspiring, Thought-provoking... A Passion-led Life"

"A Riveting Rollercoaster Ride that will have you Roaring with Laughter"

"Laughed so hard, my period cramps came"

Selling out multiple shows in Singapore, SLOMOSEXUAL makes its international debut at Edinburgh Fringe 2025!

⚠️ Suitable for ages 18+

August 16, 2025   Fringe Review

Hidden Gem

The hilarious story of Nebulous Niang, a good Chinese Singaporean girl, following all society expected of her until she saw lesbian series Orange is the New Black.

Slomosexual is a slickly performed, hour long solo stand-up show from Singaporean Chinese comedian Nebulous Niang. With the aid of occasional exhibits on a large TV screen, she tells us her life story focussing primarily on the expectations that Singaporean society puts on women (especially when she was growing up in 1990s Asia) of conforming to a hetero-normative life of getting a husband and having children, which is what she duly did. She shares childhood photos that show the writing was already on the wall early on that she was no girly-girl. She takes us through her childhood years (and is especially funny impersonating her no nonsense Chinese mother), and her early marriage to a sullen, brutish man, having children with him. She brings her life story up to date by sharing that she is now in an inter-ethnic lesbian couple relationship raising Gen Z kids in a conservative country, Singapore. But it is not these life story milestones that are the joy of this hour of engagingly honest, impish comedy storytelling. Nebulous Niang is a highly professional, competent and mischievous comedian and it is a delight to see a Chinese woman delivering quality queer comedy. She is continually wrong-footing us with the set-up and punchlines of her hilarious stories where she navigates her way out of a heterosexual straitjacket and into the free queer life she really wants to live. With no early lesbian role models and active discouragement of being anything other than a straight married woman, there are many very funny learning curves (not only Orange is the New Black) which she speedily ascends before, during and after her marriage. No spoilers here but some of the things she got away with in her marriage, with her husband’s consent or indifference are much more modern than the Singaporean society at the time would (or still does) tolerate. So in some ways, she wasn’t that much of a slow motion homosexual.

Slomosexual sold out multiple shows in Singapore, and it deserves to be more widely seen in Edinburgh. The hour flies by and you come out better educated about LGBTQ+ lives in Singapore and with a sense of relief that so many of the issues Nebulous Niang had to face were factors our parents’ generation faced in the UK, rather than current generations. Click Here For Article