The combination of confessional trauma and stand-up is a line that few manage to walk without developing a lopsided gait, failing to balance jokes and impactful storytelling. Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note finds a way around this problem with our host asking audiences to help her develop the perfect farewell letter that will inject some humour into a morbid situation. 

This sturdy anchor gives Ash the freedom to discuss personal experiences of depression, rape, misogyny, queer identity and religion in a slowly unspooling monologue of ever-mounting upset, leavened with gallows humour and pitch-dark punning. 

Ultimately, this is an overly diffuse mixture that never quite reaches a conclusion beyond acknowledging the overwhelming forces of life stacked against an individual. But perhaps the end goal isn’t the point; her broader theme seems to be that purging our demons (the catharsis of confession itself) is the best chance we have to stay alive. 

Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note, Monkey Barrel The Tron, until 27 August, 10.05pm.