Towards the end of this one-woman show, writer/performer Alice Mary Cooper wonders out loud what the moral of her story is. She offers some possibilities but does not sound wholly convinced by any of them. It is a shame she did not ask the same question at the start. Although she tells her story in a bright and engaging manner in Laila Noble’s likable production, it is never clear why she thought to tell it in the first place.
The true-life story could be about many things – among them sisterly solidarity, grassroots campaigning, radicalisation, corporate greed, government complicity, political compromise and the birth of environmentalism. All those themes are present, without ever seeming central to what Cooper has to say.
