A young woman (Julia Murray) in the park, heads for the duck pond, her aim to end her life which feels like it's alll gone horribly wrong. But an unlikely intervention from a talking swan (Paul McArthur) convinces her to think again, at least for a while. And if there's time to think, says the swan, there's time for a night out. Cue a series of bars and clubs and drunken soliloquys. And songs, lots of songs, for htis is very much a musical.
And that's the problem, at least for someone like me. When they could be expanding the plot, and exploring what is at heart a very dark theme, they're too busy singing. he lyrics do help move things along, but not nearly as much as well written dialogue would have. This cocktail of human frailty, fantasy and redemption deserved a little more depth, less froth.
Disappointing.
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