This musical satire of reality TV is about a show in the Pop Idol mould, but for female contestants vying for a charitable cause of their choice rather than a singing contract.
Steere proficiently switches between several accents, which helps distinguish the characters, but there is reductive comedy in a contestant’s Liverpudlian straight-talking, a God-fearing Irish woman (“In der name of der fader …”), a foxhunting Sloane, and so on.
The end twist is so contrived it seems incoherent, but the production does capture the tinny tone and pace of a reality TV competition, and Steere gives a thoroughly jaunty performance.
A concussed contestant causes a stir with her unfiltered protest songs, in this caffeinated monologue performed by Daisy Steere.
Her concussed state leads her to speak and sing in unfiltered ways about the hypocrisies of reality TV and its cynical gender politics.
