The piece uses comedy and transformation to guide the audience through shame and guilt into shared experiences of laughter and insight. Unforgettable Girl delicately probes the awkward, almost violent line that connects these two worlds of whiteness and the other. Vaccine is a lethal dose of uncomfortable honesty, a playful bouffon and then a grotesque tragedy playing out an unflinching mirror of the white gaze. This no-holds-barred production interrogates and amplifies the experience of the homo sacer, a dehumanised person rendered dispensable – in this case Vaccine, a mail order bride.

As a woman of colour, there was a paradoxical privilege to being given entry into white spaces: it saw her constantly pushed to the margins – forgotten, condescended to, ignored, less than. Unforgettable Girl was originally conceived by Gunawan while at RADA in response to her experience as the only East Asian actress in the entire school. This irreverent bouffon-inspired myth is about the violence our culture inflicts on bodies of colour. As she strives to become unforgettable, she is forced to transform, destroy and rebuild herself in order to survive. Money can’t buy love, but £19.99/month gets you Unforgettable Girl, a mail-order bride direct from the wasteland of Asian stereotypes. The piece is directed by female-led Lecoq-formed theatre company Created a Monster, whose work – tending always towards bouffon, the art of mockery – uses bright, sharp theatre languages to explore dark, hellish worlds. Kyll Anthony Thomas Cole (Flabbergast Theatre’s Macbeth Told by an Idiot’s Would You Bet Against Us?) completes the cast for this Offie Award-winning production. Winner of the Pleasance’s Charlie Hartill Fund, Unforgettable Girl was written by and stars Elisabeth Gunawan, who received The Stage Debut Award winner for Best Performer in a Play for the play’s previous two-night run.

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