"I don't know if there's anyone I can love who won't make me smaller - who won't take things...".

Night out. Pub. Friends - but one of them is a bit more than a mate, isn't he? Eve watches Gabe flirt with everyone, including their waitress, knowing that once the games are over, he will come to her. She's hooked, she knows it, but she doesn't like it. As Eve loses her favourite game, memories surface from a childhood long ignored. Eve confronts demons in her partner to find them living in her own skin.

Using tender puppetry, striking stage images and a brutally vulnerable script Darlings is a timely look at modern relationships, manipulation, and how they are tied into our childhood experience.

"Darlings toys with the audience's expectations, asking them to challenge their preconceptions about manipulative relationships, and, in turn, reflect on their own relationships and interiority." Epigram Arts. ****

"Stellar performance and some incredible light and sound" Thomas Robertson