Per-Verse Review

Per-Verse Review

Running until 19th April 2025

How does one sum up modern day dating? It’s like trying to explain Apple Watches to grandparents or why we can’t just print more money to someone like me. Impossible. Yet, Georgie Wedge has taken the inexplicable no man’s land of dating in 2025 and managed to do that just and following an acclaimed debut at Edinburgh Fringe last year, she is now taking up residency at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios for the next three weeks. 

“…she tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”

As the audience piled into the River Room, a thoughtfully-curated playlist – think Take A Chance On Me and Don’t You Want Me – immediately sets the tone for the following 50 minutes and as the foreign literature-lined stage came into view, we settled down for a whistlestop tour of what it’s like to date today.  

The reason why Wedge’s one-woman show hits the nail on the head is because she tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It’s a real battleground out there. Don your warpaint (heavy duty concealer, obviously) and ward off the threat of cherry-flavoured vapes and limebikes.

It was all in the detail too. Her poetic Verses were memorable and struck the right balance between laugh out loud and food for thought. The perfectly timed switch of a light, the whirring of the fan in a bathroom and dance moves which are sure to sweep half of East London off their feet took it one step further and the effect was magic. 

So, let’s hear it for the man, the myth, the “wedgend”. I don’t think this is the last we’ll be seeing of her. And if it is, at least we know there’s always an option to go home, down a Lucozade and watch Gilmore Girls. 

Photos by Thomas Sandler

Maggie John

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