This is exactly the sort of show you hope to come across at the Fringe: funny, messy, hugely imperfect but so packed full of talent and great ideas that it really doesn’t matter. Written by queer theatre collective Stroud and Notes (Kyla Stroud, Natalie Stroud and Hannah Sands), Public wonders what would happen if four strangers were trapped in a gender neutral public toilet for an hour, and sets it to music.
We’ve got drawling, privately educated Gen Z campaigner Zo – “Gemini, Leo rising, with a Cancer moon” - whose every utterance is like the worst of Tiktok distilled. Annabel Marlow absolutely milks the role, turning every line into comic gold. When one character asks what her job is, she replies, “I’m in between dreams at the moment.”
