Have you ever felt collapsible? Like a folding chair on the brink of snapping in half? 

In Irish playwright Margaret Perry’s 70-minute monologue, Collapsible, Esther (or Essie, played by Janet Anderson) tries to remember who she is by collecting a list of adjectives that friends, colleagues, relatives and acquaintances have used to describe her. The list goes everywhere with her as she repeatedly describes herself to different HR representatives in an attempt to get a job and start rebuilding her life post-breakup-breakdown.

Janet Anderson in Collapsible. Photo © Phil Erbacher.

Co-directors Zoë Hollyoak and Morgan Moroney, and designer Hayden Relf, set this breakdown in a terrifyingly liminal office waiting room. It’s blue, white, and nondescript, up on a raised platform with the corner of the room pointing towards the audience. The back wall and a tiny television in the right corner become the backdrop for video projections that help Anderson portray a cast of characters that flit in and out of Essie’s life.

Pre-recorded segments feature Anderson in exaggerated wigs and costumes, and other live video elements show Anderson...