Picking – Gullivers Lounge
If you’ve ever suffered a bad date, then you may find either solace in tonight’s show, or confirmation that it’s time to delete a few apps off your phone.
Described as a ‘love letter to the over-thinkers, worriers and anxiously attached’, Picking is a one-act, one woman show from the pen of Amelia Slater.
We meet Catherine who, left to her own devices for the night whilst her flatmate visits a boyfriend, tipsily sways between near misses with a disastrous would-be booty call, pining for the good guy and considering lesbianism.
Catherine’s Fleabag-esque misadventures as she scrapes for a self-esteem boost provide plenty of laughs, some moments of poignancy and a mildly horrifying insight into the perils of young Millennial/Gen-Z dating.
Occasionally, like Catherine’s dating ...