Podcast: Putting It All Out There with Overshare

Eleanor Hill discusses her new play Overshare

Back at the very start of 2023 Eleanor Hill spoke to us about Sad-vents, a show we called “visually impressive” in our 4 star review. In the two years since, she’s been rather busy. After her run at VAULT Festival, she then took the show to Edinburgh. And then started to work on her new show, Overshare. Oh and found time for some neurosurgery after expeirencing a medical emergency!

Overshare explores the realities of mental health & trauma in the age of social media, but with the same humour that made Sad-vents such a powerful show. It also incorporates much of the same technical genuis of its predecessor, with the whole show performed to her phone instead of the audience, and livestreamed on screens behind her.

We chat with Eleanor about how much of Sad-vents has found its way into Overshare, whether there’s the worry that the technology will overshadow everything else, and why the aim isn’t to try to tell us what’s wrong with social media, but rather to generate conversations in the bar after the show.

Overshare comes to Greenwich Theatre from Tuesday 6 – Saturday 25 May.

Overshare

Greenwich Theatre

6 – 23 May

KEEP YOUR PHONES TURNED ON.

Take pictures, record videos and slide into my DM’s📱 (It’s giving interactive)

OVERSHARE is anything but demure. ‘As if Bo Burnham’s Inside was made by Bridget Jones’s drug-addled cousin’ (British Theatre Guide) This ‘brilliantly original one-person show‘ (WestEndBestFriend) ‘makes Fleabag look like CBeebies’

Remember we listen, we don’t judge as we hurtle through this ‘endearingly, recklessly look-no-hands bold’ show. (Lyn Gardner) Memes, messages and music collide with a series of monologues so close to my actual life you could just be reading my diary!

Be prepared for DM sliding, TikTok dancing, social stalking and endless oversharing. ‘At once very raw and technically ambitious’ (The Guardian) OVERSHARE is ‘an impressive feat of performance and technology’️ (The Stage), using live streaming and real-time audience messaging to explore the hilarious and heartbreaking realities of mental health & trauma in the age of social media. Together we’ll scroll through reels to find what’s “real”, and maybe stumble across the answer to the ultimate question: do we consume social media or does it consume us?

Tickets available here.