Holly Spillar's Tall Child opens with a legal disclaimer sang in loop-pedal track harmony. The NDA she signed working at a mysterious unmentionable job hangs over the show as a constant source of jokes. It had something to do with billionaire's children. Though she has worked with children a lot now, Spillar tells us 'when I was a child I was afraid of children.' Spillar's presence is cute and formidable, and the show grows out of her: looping layers of song building emotional crescendos at the absurdity and hardships of life as an artist in London working among the kids of the superrich. With sensitive charm and and on point similes ('I have the limbs of a lift out lettuce in a Wetherspoons side salad'), Holly Spillar explores the precarity of the authentic creative life. 

17:45 | 1-24 August, Dexter at Underbelly, Bristo Square

Review by Will J. Wood.