“Before the age of YouTube tutorials, there was just the club toilets,” Rosie says. It is in one of them, alone, that she is waxing poetic about those good old days.
Dressed to impress in a black velvet minidress, Rosie is reminiscing about the times when she could take a moment for just about anything — whether tips on makeup or self-defense, or an instant therapy session — in the women’s room.
It was a safe place to set the night on pause and take a breather from dancing, flirting and drinking. Perhaps she could also regain control for a little bit.
The new Travis Alabanza play “Overflow,” which is now streaming from the Bush Theater in London, is about this quest for agency and safety, here inextricably intertwined with identity.