‘Utterly hilarious and scarily relatable.’
This highly relatable, dark comedy will speak to anyone who has been through the weird and wonderful stages of a breakup whilst still holding onto the hope that it can’t truly be over. The one-woman show is a monologue about heartbreak and the crazy things it can make us do.
Expertly performed by Sarah Hodgewood, this piece takes the audience on an emotional rollercoaster as she shares all the whacky things she did whilst waiting and hoping that her ex-girlfriend would fall back in love with her again. Sarah is an engaging and high energy performer whose energy level never wavers throughout.
Her tales ranged from light-hearted and entertaining to dark and confused with everything in between. The piece begins with her breaking into her former shared home to beg her ex-girlfriend to love her again. It continues through various phases including spending $300 on an exercise fad to create the perfect revenge body and finding a drug dealer to buy weed gummies all to impress a hinge date.
We hear about her relationship with Instagram and how she struggles to stop checking up on her ex, as well as her experience of queer dating in New York. Sarah refers to herself as the ‘queer Carrie Bradshaw’ as she is thrust back into the dating scene for her hinge era.
Sarah cleverly weaves in the use of audio and uses chairs as staging to transition through different scenes and spaces, often commenting on the simplicity of the techniques at her own expense to create humour.
Sarah is expressive, funny and relatable and weaves humour throughout her show. Her character is outgoing and charming with some serious main character energy and the piece culminates in a West End style Broadway sing off whilst she is deep in existential crisis trying to wake up form a perceived dream.
This show is for anyone who has been through a breakup and then lost the plot.