The Other Palace, London
Sarah Cameron-West’s one-woman show switches between inner and outer voices to explore envy, anger and inadequacy

We are not given the name of the main character in this one-woman show, but certainly know that her office nemesis is called Karen. We meet the protagonist just as she is being dumped by Joe, her boyfriend of four years, and it quickly becomes clear that Karen is a negative force in her life beyond the office too.

Sarah Cameron-West’s monologue was compared to Peep Show and Fleabag at last year’s Edinburgh fringe and you can see why. Like the latter, it is confessional, intimate and sheds insight on female anger, envy and feelings of inadequacy. Cameron-West performs energetically and there is real promise in the writing, but it touches on themes rather than cracking them open to say something beyond the tropes of its more famed forebears.

At the Other Palace, London, until 23 March