‘We need women’s story,” says Liz Kingsman in One Woman Show, her slick parody of Fleabag and the countless creations that have since been compared to it. It’s a show within a show – Kingsman is staging her own production, Wildfowl, filming it in front of a live audience in the desperate hope that a TV commissioner (who couldn’t make it tonight) will pick it up.
Her character is an extreme Manic Pixie Dream Girl – she “pours” herself on to the tube, she’s quirky and chaotic, and she has a dark secret. “I guess I’m just relatable,” she shrugs.
