The staging of the show is simple, with Andrews seated behind a cheap desk with a laptop and headphones. Her typing is projected on a screen behind her, and Andrews does not move from behind the desk for the thirty minutes or so of the performance. Visually, the play is quite static and therefore comes to depend on the writing and Andrews’ skill in delivering it.

Andrews is clearly interested in the details of people’s lives, rather than the big picture, although an overly profound attempt is made later in the piece to extrapolate the theme into a broader musing on the changes in human communication habits. There are some very nice observations and sharp turns of phrase, showing that Andrews is a promising writer of comedic material.

Andrews is also an engaging enough performer, but the material is ultimately too thin to sustain interest. The structure of the show also gets far too repetitive – about ten times over we get a brief description of a co-worker, an office trope, and then they are assigned a font. The show doesn’t actually move to subvert these stereotypes, which would produce more comedic depth.

Ultimately, it’s hard to empathise with a character that seems to have just spent too much time thinking about fonts. 
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