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Lovestuck, a new romcom about a disastrous first date, is in the worst possible taste. But it's also the funniest thing since Celine Dion spoof Titanique, says the Mail's theatre critic Patrick Marmion
Based on a real-life social media sensation, it's the tale of an unfortunate young woman who gets trapped in a bathroom window, after attempting to dispose of a poop she had been unable to flush.
For, yes, gentle reader, this one is about a real-life social media sensation from 2017, in which an unfortunate young woman, on a first date from hell, found herself trapped in a stranger's bathroom window, after attempting to dispose of a poop she had been unable to flush. Stepping in for an injured Jessica Boshier on the night I went was Ambra Caserotti: a gutsy, Linda Robson-ish comic actor whose hapless Lucy is persecuted for imperfection by the merciless social media influencer inside her head (‘My life is in pieces, thanks to my own faeces!’). Chi-San Howard adds comic choreography, and the direction by Jamie Morton (creator of hit podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno) wraps it all up as a big smiley, primary coloured salute to the survivors of dating hell (basically everyone).
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