One Woman Show is absolutely sublime theatre – review
Where to begin with a play like One Woman Show? Liz Kingsman’s creation – originally opening at the Soho Theatre last year, and subsequently a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, earning rave reviews – has now opened on London’s West End and it’s quite unlike anything we’ve seen.
It’s high concept stuff – Liz is on-stage as the writer, knowingly creating a performance about a character who works in marketing at the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust.
Not content with being a parody of the show-within-a-show format, it takes things one step further: the premise is that this performance is also being filmed for a TV commissioner.
It’s not, and Liz knows that, although she plays along with the camera malfunctions and mic pack mishaps for the most part, and the accompanying programme jokes that it might become a major TV series.
