Sophia Wren: Princess Melancholy

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"Is Sophia performing stand-up comedy or are we just witnessing an acute psychotic episode? Either way, once she's getting attention, she doesn't care. Come and watch a charmingly lewd, self deprecating and 'delulu' grown woman who insists on dressing like a princess as she explores her experiences with men, Irishness, body image, feminism, unexpected motherhood and the cruel and vulgar reality of being in a human body, all tinged with a nihilistic and self- destructive dread that underpins her every thought. As Sophia (beautiful perfect princess) performs her set we realise, through moments of surrealism, that things are not all as they should be and she is actively at battle with her own inner-demons. Is stand-up comedy just the plaster over a gunshot wound in her stupid little life, a life-raft to a drowning woman... or should she just go see a therapist? Princess Melancholy is a sparkling, one-woman, comedy/theatre hybrid that pulses with manic energy and explores some weird and complex ideas and, at its heart, celebrates and laments the painful reality of being a woman at odds with society, the people in it and her own mind. Expect dark humour, strong language, adult jokes and surreal voiceovers and effects."