Playwright Abby Howells had the Basement theatre rocking with laughter with a sharply scripted comedy about the creepy side of fandom.
At the same time she delivers a timely message on how imaginative identification with the fabulous lives of the rich and the famous can undermine our ability to live our own lives.
While there are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments the show never feels like a stand-up routine due the careful attention paid to the fundamentals of storytelling and character.
The three members of the ''Cumberbitches'' fan club are wildly exaggerated stereotypes but they each represent different aspects of a very human yearning for something that can take us beyond the banality of our every day existence.
The three young actors do a great job of humanizing the chronically fixated misfits who find some solace in whole-hearted devotion to their idol.
