My Little Phobia

Highly recommend! A brave, funny show performed brilliantly. Hoping to see it again while I'm up here!

As someone with emetophobia and OCD myself, I found this a truthful (but not triggering) portrayal which was refreshing to watch. It was funny but did not poke fun, and Emily’s personal experience creates a sincere performance within the comedy.

This show is very clever, very silly, and it tackles some very serious issues along the way. Emily takes us on a journey of introspection, fear, confusion, and ultimately resolution of all of it... while talking to a toy pony, performing a hilarious requiem ballet, reading her grandmother's bawdy diary to us, and applying generous amounts of hand-sanitizer to her lunch (don't do this). It's funny and tragic and uplifting and kinda gross... in short, it's perfect!

I loved this show. It’s very funny but also really powerful. The actress is super talented, warm, and generous. She explores the complexity of OCD in a way which helps you laugh at it its ridiculousness and also understand how crippling it can be. Great great show!

Written in a way that only someone with OCD can explain, this show was a real look into how all consuming it can be - with the added quirkiness similar to Amile.
However, just a quick warning, this show is honestly triggering if you have similar OCD triggers or phobia. As someone who still struggles with a lot of fear around throwing up, I found the show too relatable and I struggled to sit through it. It's good. It's well written. But it's so real and truthful. It's a great education for someone who's never experienced it before. Just don't come to see it to relate to someone similar too because it's a heavy show all about being scared of throwing up and all the times she's seen/been sick.
Like I said, really well done. But maybe too well done for someone like me who didn't realise how much I'm still struggling with it.

This is a silly funny playful solo show about... anything but vomit! Okay, it's sort of about vomit - or rather, a fear of vomit. But even more so, it's a glimpse into the life experiences generated by such a phobia - including some of the sacrifices Emily has had to make, and examples of some of the more challenging circumstances she has encountered. Her delivery is charming and downright adorable. The audience was with her from the very start. While the show dives deep into the specifics of Emily's life and experiences, the broader message also touches on themes about the choices we make, and the consequences we face due to those choices. I found the metaphor of horses to be particularly entertaining and memorable - they are unable to vomit (yay!) but that also means if they eat poison, they will just die. Which is worse?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brilliant show! An endearingly funny take on a serious subject which I’m sure everyone has experienced at some point in their lives. Just not to that level. As parent of a child who also suffers from extreme emetophobia it was so helpful for him to appreciate he’s not alone and that he can conquer it one day. Thank you for a wonderful show and I would recommend catching it if you can (the show… not emetophibia cos that would be weird

I've been wanting to see this show for a few months - it was so worth the wait! Emily is such a skilled actress. I learned a lot about OCD in this extremely entertaining format. I've already recommended this show to friends. If you're intrigued, don't wait anther minute. The show I attended was packed!

First of all, the show grabs you with the aesthetic - sickly sweet (pun intended) pastel tones, a tumble of toys and childhood bedroom detritus from the nineties/noughties. Then Markoe captivates you, flitting between deadly serious mock funeral scenes (again, pun intended, insert dad joke groan here), flamboyantly presenting family members who join the escapades, then flipping back to her childhood self and opening the door on life in that childhood bedroom. This would be good in itself, but the real depth of the show is in the anxieties that intrude and interject and compel, and how Markoe wrestles with taking them seriously and poking fun at them. I felt so seen! (I have this phobia too.) So much respect to
Markoe for bringing the topic more into the open. If you know this phobia, the resonance is deep, if you don’t, you’ll laugh but also learn (a lot). Overall: Think being drenched in nineties/noughties girlhood, whilst poking fun at obtrusive anxious thoughts, thanks to heart to hearts with a toy pony.

A super relatable show (if you have experience with the phobia), but fun even if you don't ! A very brave take, that's funny, on an issue that can be hard to deal with ! A very pleasant pastel childhood bedroom aesthetic too. You might use even more sanistizer than you used to after the show ! ;)