Verona Verbakel's OnlyFans for Therapy: Edinburgh review
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- Verona Verbakel delivers a vivid one-person show called "OnlyFans for Therapy" at Zoo Playground, Edinburgh, mixing humour with trauma in a single performance.
- The review characterises Verbakel's performance as veering from confident to crumbling, framing it as "brave and unsettling emotional exposure."
- The reviewer draws a deliberate parallel to influencer culture, noting the show riffs on the familiar cliche of narrating daily routines as a personal "journey."
- The piece is staged as a playful pastiche of online self-disclosure, blending the confessional tone of platform culture with raw emotional vulnerability.
Why it matters: For Edinburgh Fringe audiences, Verbakel's show stands out by refusing the polished comfort of conventional solo performance — it weaponises influencer-style self-narration to deliver genuinely uncomfortable emotional terrain, marking her as a performer willing to risk the audience's ease for the sake of the work.
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