With her character “stumbling through my 20s in a darkly funny, fiercely honest way”, the show is like a window to every beautiful but relatable, smart but down-to-earth, klutzy but honest female caricature with a strong, honest best friend around. If they’re running from a painful life event, even better.
Liz Kingsman on Friday night.Credit:Sydney Opera House
One Woman Show might inspire comparisons with Fleabag, but it’s far from a simple lampoon. It’s a splendid and well-crafted journey through ludicrous romcom locations, earnest performance poetry, rich and entitled self-awareness and narrow ideas about what a woman in contemporary times is like.
But essentially, it’s crackingly crafted, has a beautifully dry and dotty script and features a lot of bird-based humour. And Kingsman is a very funny person who proves comedy sees through everything.
One Woman Show is at the Sydney Opera House until February 19.









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