An unorthodox route away from the regular theatre doors, through a warren of service corridors and then blacked out hallways leads audience onto the stage of the State Theatre. It is a black-box with raised seating, everyone is completely disoriented; the regular house is obscured behind us. This is an ideal footing on which to…

Ten people take us in. They are a well-represented spectrum of female reality, about to enact the least ‘real’ entertainment there is, for the script here in this performance is an actual transcript of American franchise ‘The Bachelor’ Season 17, Episode 5. Audience knew Morgan Rose and Katrina Cornwell would serve them real-ness but with…