Frances Floats is the story of one woman’s acceptance of becoming, in her words, ‘very fat’. But more than that, it’s a tale of uprooting your whole life for love, delivered with an earnestness that only an American romantic comedy can give you. Frances Mercanti-Anthony is a Broadway actor who relocated from the bustling suburbs of New Jersey to rural Maine, where the climate is more reminiscent of the haar of Edinburgh than of the sunny coastlines of her home state. Frances Floats is about her coming to terms with that change and expecting the unexpected.

Mercanti-Anthony’s delivery is clear and the writing is often engaging and thoughtful, but the show’s threads don’t necessarily always tie together; at one point there’s a ten-minute tangent about 9/11 that doesn’t bear much relevance to the narrative as a whole. Furthermore, for a truly captivating solo show, there needs to be more to it than ‘this is what’s happened in my life so far’. Nevertheless, Mercanti-Anthony is a charismatic performer, and her decades of theatrical experience shine through. Frances Floats is uplifting and the message is positive, albeit sometimes muddled. The show is nothing new, but an hour in her company is an hour well spent.

Frances Floats, Gilded Balloon Appleton Tower, until 24 August, 1.15pm.