This slow but searing monologue begins as a girl-meets-boy romance which might be a meet cute if the tone were not so sombre. He is a poet, aloof and intriguing, she is a receptionist, instantly drawn to him. “I don’t believe in love at first sight but I feel like I’m falling …”
Written by Ava Wong Davies and performed by Sabrina Wu as Nina, it is delivered as a direct address to the absent other and also a kind of interrogation which builds to expose abuse at the heart of this relationship.
