“Programmed after I Wish I Was Lonely only twice during Forest Fringe’s residency at their new Out of The Blue, Drill Hall base, Deborah Pearson’s The Future Show feels curiously contiguous with the themes if not the method of …Lonely.

In theory, I’ve seen The Future Show before, at Forest Fringe at the Gate in April ‘12. But actually I haven’t, since Pearson re-writes the whole of the show, or at least the first half of the show every time she performs it.

It is something of a testament to Pearson’s astonishing skill as a writer that each time I’ve seen the show I’ve found it incredibly well-written (not a hint of the flurry with which it must be flung together), thought-provoking and beautiful. Pearson is a great performer too; her soft Canadian accent, her slow deliberate delivery into a microphone, the just-so poise of her sitting behind her little desk reading from the freshly printed script.”