Review: Eat Her Out

Eat Her Out is a two woman show, written by and starring Aoife Kissane and Georgia Thomas. The show is a humorous, barbed commentary on queer life under a cost of living crisis. The main characters are two friends who murder their roommate to steal her spare cash.

I was lucky enough to attend their second show on Friday, the second of August. The show was outdoors at The Paint Factory, and while we were waiting one of the actors (Aoife, I think) ate a grapefruit(?) under a clothesline. Queer, femme pop played from a speaker (including, of course, Femininomenon by Chappell Roan).

The show is chuckle funny, and here and there got a loud laugh from its audience. It’s also short. At a clean forty minutes, there are no frills. The story is simple: two girls murder and eat their roommate as a metaphor for suppressed queer desire. There are twists I won’t spoil, and a well-delivered kiss that I will spoil. Much of the show is draped in aggressively contemporary queer jokes and references that are sure not to age well, but an in-touch writer could rework this show if it ever returns. As for now? For a queer audience, it works very well. Goal achieved.

All Anywhere Festival attendees should keep an eye on what Kissane and Thomas produce next.

And yes. They were roommates.