For a good ten minutes, it’s impossible to get a handle on this show. There are snippets of music, flashes of TV programmes on screens, and meanwhile Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello – both breakout performers from last year’s Fringe with individual shows – occasionally toss out fragments of phrases, Thompson in a ballerina outfit and Ello in a black suit. It’s like flicking through the weirdest, most demented Tiktok feed imaginable. Possibly during the apocalypse.
But as those images butt up against each other, some kind of bigger picture starts to emerge. This is a show about bodies (I guess the title is a bit of a clue) and the two performers’ conflicted relationship with their own, both in terms of disordered eating and gender identity.
