Edinburgh’s Generation Rent have it relatively easy compared to their counterparts in Rome judging by Miriam Cappa’s one-woman, loosely autobiographical comic play. From the moment she flees her overcrowded family home, seeking to find a room of one’s own from where she can pursue her acting aspirations, all of her worldly possessions stuffed inside a bulging, overflowing suitcase, the Italian clown and street performer is destined to be thwarted at every turn. Ensnared in the byzantine bureaucracy of local government administration, the scarcity of available housing makes her search akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

Perhaps this wouldn’t be Italy if there wasn’t a sleazy side to her quest. Although she rejects accommodation on the basis of having to make OnlyFans content, she does cavort sexily for a landlord, flirtatiously playing up to the audience as well, though ultimately to little avail. She also contemplates more desperate measures, while seething at the posh acquaintance who berates her for not trying hard enough, overlooking his own privilege. Gently amusing, with Cappa’s frustration expressed in her wild-eyed intensity and committed performance, her Shakespearean quotations attest to her aspiring for greater profundity perhaps, while the tragi-comic ending is grimly ironic if a bit on the nose.

Home Sweet Home, C Aquila, until 24 August, 8.05pm.