REVIEW: OVERSHARE @ GREENWICH THEATRE

🎭 Overshare

📍  Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, London, SE10 8ES

🗓 Wednesday 14th May 2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

UNFILTERED AND UNFORGETTABLE

Performed and written by Eleanor Hill, OVERSHARE is a one-woman show that cleverly blends performance with social media. Hill films herself live throughout the piece in an Instagram story-like format. This is projected on the back of the stage so we see both her real-time performance and the  version her followers would see online.

It’s a show that tackles a lot in its just-over-an-hour-long runtime — suicide, grief, unrequited love, domestic abuse, alcoholism, drug use — which makes it a hard watch at times. But Hill manages to approach these themes with a light touch, drawing plenty of laughs from the audience. The use of memes interspersed throughout and projected on the screen were well timed and added comic relief. They were, for me, the funniest parts of the show.

The format and set were particularly well thought out. I loved the juxtaposition between what was happening on stage and what was being broadcast to “followers”. It gave us, the audience, two roles: live theatre-goers and social media consumers. This duality made me think about how we engage with people’s lives online — what we’re shown, what’s kept back, and what that does to our empathy.

Hill embodies the influencer persona brilliantly — exaggerated, brash, sometimes uncomfortable to watch, but undeniably compelling. The moments I found most powerful, though, were the more raw and emotional ones. Her account of a sad and disturbing encounter with male police officers and a seemingly real Instagram video shown toward the end of the play were the moments I connected with most. They offered a glimpse of the ‘real’ Hill and invited us to compare that version to the exaggerated on-stage character. It was oddly comforting to see that distinction — though it also made me question why I took the louder, more performative Eleanor less seriously. I was forced to examine whether we have become desensitised to the pain behind curated online personas?

I also caught myself watching the screen at the back more than I wanted to — perhaps because our brains are now so trained to engage with content in that format. It actually made me feel a bit sad, and when I noticed it, I tried to refocus on the live performance unfolding in front of me. That tug between screen and stage felt incredibly relevant — and intentional.

The set, styled as Eleanor’s childhood bedroom, was full of detail and felt incredibly lifelike. It grounded the performance in something personal and real. A leaflet handed out with the show suggests that much of what Eleanor explores is drawn from lived experience — and that, in itself, is brave and inspiring.

OVERSHARE is one of the most stylistically unique pieces of theatre I’ve seen in a while, and I’d absolutely recommend it.

What I loved most was how much the play got me thinking. Not just about the content and the themes covered, but about how we consume social media, how we interact with people online.

OVERSHARE runs at the Greenwich Theatre until Sunday 25th May. Click here for tickets.

Estelle Luck

All views are my own and I pride myself on being honest, fair and free from influence. Theatre is subjective and it is important to remember that all views expressed are just those of one reviewer.  

My ticket for this performance of Overshare was gifted by Eleanor Hill who invited me to watch the show on behalf of Pink Prince Theatre in exchange for my honest review. The fact that my ticket was gifted played no part in the content of my review or the star rating given. 

WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY:

Eleanor Hill

RUNNING TIME (approx):

1 hour 10 minutes, with no interval