Fangirls at Lyric Hammersmith review: raucous Aussie musical is a bittersweet celebration of fandom

Teenage hormones run hot and heavy through this rambunctious Australian musical, which is by turns very smart and very, very silly. Written by Yve Blake, Fangirls both mocks and celebrates the obsessive passions teenage girls conceive for members of boybands, which have been assembled to generate precisely that reaction.

The show hangs sharp and sensitive observations, punchy songs and robust Antipodean wit on a plot that, as a late lyric suggests, is “so fake it was just embarrassing”. Unlike Six, with which it shares a raucous, yass-kween feminism, Fangirls doesn’t quite transcend its innate daftness.