Audience members arriving at BATS Dome for Oversharer are being eyed up from a couch mid stage. The couch’s inhabitant is Mo Munn and maybe she’s in the process of deciding how easily we’ll be pleased. For she’s a self-confessed people pleaser, otherwise known as an oversharer.

Her first song is about choices as she tries to decide between two taste treats, displayed on a pedestal in full audience view. But probably being a people pleaser isn’t really a choice. After all, it signifies the desire for connection. And we’d all agree that’s a human need. Ah, but it all depends on how you go about it.

And go about it our performer does! In a series of personal anecdotes, she laments everything from her inability to buy suitable presents, to the far more intimate mistakes she makes before a date. “I like to be relatable,” she tells us. Our laughter tells her she is, though not perhaps in the way she thinks!

I admire the momentum Munn maintains as she races from one anecdote to the next. A phone call interrupts her comedic flow, and we see her vulnerability. There are downsides to being an oversharer – your company may not be desired, and invitations may be withdrawn. “I’m more of a dessert than an entree,” is how she puts it. Verbal agility is a characteristic of her performance: similes and metaphors abound.

Now the trajectory of the performance takes a more serious turn. We are confronted with the reality that oversharing of the kind we’ve been presented with can backfire and lead to isolation. Munn describes herself as part Māori and touches lightly on the discrimination she experiences, speaking wryly of “the right level of being discriminated against.”

Denouement comes in the form of despair before Munn demonstrates her resilience, and her oft-repeated statement “I’m not a quitter” triumphs.

Despite its comedic guise and generally entertaining nature, “Oversharer” is a thoughtful, provocative piece of theatre.  

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