Reviewed by: Stage Whispers
Review by Mark Wickett | 19 February 2024
There’s a whole lot of copper pipe on the stage, deliberately shaped into frames, and adorned with rails, bicycle wheels, a handful of tin cans – and a gong. The show’s writer and performer, Miranda Prag is worried about time: at the start, it’s how little she has; and what she has, how it is filled; and why when it is filled with the spontaneous requirements of the day, it inevitably makes her late for her meeting. Between chapters of her story, there are audio descriptions describing the changing set – and it’s wonderful to build this accessibility into the show, and not as an afterthought – indeed some of the humour is inserted here too: there’s great interaction between Miranda the recorded narrator and Miranda the live performer. Whilst the recorded descriptions play out, Prag takes apart then reassembles the framework into a different shape – adding colourful decorations, deliberately positioning the wheels and string and bolts around the frame.