Bullies sneak in at the sidelines of this story, but Melissa Johns doesn’t let them steal the show. In her one-woman performance, the extremely affable Coronation Street actor centres sharp and funny stories about sex and dating. Snatched may not be the most rigorous piece of storytelling, but it charmingly articulates how she learned to enjoy her body after she had gone to desperate measures to hide it.
Johns acts out a fractured collection of mini-scenes and memories, primarily about navigating an ableist world as a woman with one and a half arms. Individually, the snippets are witty and honest, but the lack of an overarching structure makes the show feel untidy, like you’re flipping through a diary, randomly stopping every so often to read an entry.
