Lois is your average everyday superhero- Extraordinary Girl, living her life as best she can since the “accident” that turned her, along with her team (Inconceivable Girl, Mr Amazing, The Wonderment and Fabulous Man) into a superhero.
The story unfolds in front of us taking place entirely in a living room set-up as it is a solo show, performed entirely in mime. It isn’t as strange as it sounds however as Lois’s clever use of sound effects and excellent, atmospheric and detailed voice-overs add extra dimension and inject lots of humour to the set-up as the scenes. When Lois is called away (generally when she is about to tuck into pizza, cake or a tv show) to do battle with Megalomaniac Man’s giant creatures wreaking havoc elsewhere in the world the use of these voice-overs as television interview/reporter footage (the house goes dark while they play) is fantastic.
Lois’ inventive use of props and impeccable timing to interact with the sound effects (she changes radio stations with her hand and irons in the same way) is ingenious and hilarious. The overall show is one of wit, irony and subtlety and whilst initially the choice to use no dialogue seems curious it is barely noticeable by the end as Lois expresses excellently the boredom, loneliness, frustration and rage that her character feels with gentle humour. Shorter attention spans may be lost with this show as until you are used to the house lights going out during Scene voice-over descriptions (video footage or power point images may have been preferable here) it can be difficult to focus on what is going on. Heroic and Original effort.
4/5 
Bobbi Carmichael
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