one4review | On 13, Aug 2024

Alyona is a female in her 20’s who goes to London with just a suitcase in hand, she gets sorted with somewhere to stay namely her best friend’s ex boyfriends house which happens to be a mansion in her eyes. She has the house to herself and decides to have a look around. A white shirt catches her eye, so she tries it on for size. The shirt reminds her of her previous relationships, five of them to be precise, because when she left each one, she took a shirt from them as a memento.

The story then completely changes, and I am not exactly sure what is real and what is fantasy. Alyona becomes Juliet and speaks about running a sugar daddy dating site and recalls a date with an older man which includes a shopping spree and an unusual ending. We then jump back to three weeks previous where Alyona attends a family dinner, a family who speak Russian. We jump back to present tense and get a tour of the mansion’s bathroom! After the bathroom tour, we return to Juliet who is now on a date with a salesperson who sells Tasers and Pepper spray for protection.

We end the show back with Alyona I think, where she jumps into bed and has an orgasm (Described in moderate detail). The last time I was this confused watching something was when I watched Vanilla Sky.

What can I say about this one, Jacqueline Lipman is a talented performer and enjoyable to watch but the storyline to this show was extremely difficult to follow and confusing to say the least. The pre read had a lot of potential but it failed to deliver especially as the show only lasted forty-five minutes and not an hour as advertised.

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Reviewed by Steve
Greenside @George Street-Fern Studio
16.15 (1hr)
Until 27th August