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She frames the scenes by reading from her teenage diaries, providing an increasingly personal feel. They tell of teenage life in Eighties Cornwall with a loose tooth and Lady Di haircut and the many boys that steadfastly ignored her conjuring a vivid, painfully funny (if only in retrospect) picture of her early life.

The meat of the show again involves a host of inventively drawn, slightly insane characters, some of which will be familiar to viewers of her previous shows. Having purchased a return ticket, Celia (inspired by Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter) appears again to share in clipped upper-middle-class tones her lust for any bit of rough she sees in the corner shop.

For those who laughed themselves sore the last time at Neary’s Pan’s People-style dance to Harry Nilsson’s Without You should pack the ointment as they’re treated to no less than two chaotic, Seventies-inspired dance numbers. Other highlights feature Bjork singing about the property market and a nervous woman giving a talk on sex aids.

As expected by now from Neary, all the characters are given a slightly crazed delivery and invested with an other-worldliness that sets her above your common-or-garden character comic. Quite brilliant.

Reviewed by: Marissa Burgess