This Review is from August 2025

What really happens when you try your best and you don’t succeed?

Lily Blumkin is an award-winning writer and performer on the staff of The Daily Show – one would argue that sounds like a successful person. But Lily wants to be greatest comedian in the world. As soon as she blows up on TikTok, which she’s super close to doing… yeah, this reviewer can relate.

For now, Lily’s back at her childhood home, packing up her bedroom because her parents are moving. She runs through each of the objects that her mother asked her to discard, realising that while they might not be useful to her anymore, they are a valuable memory. Each object creates a new character vignette. A once learned life lesson.

This Gilded Balloon room is comfortable and intimate. And this is a comfortable and intimate character based, storytelling teatime show.

A version of this review appears on Episode 14 of the On the Mic: Five a Day podcast.