Deborah Frances-White, host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, has long built her brand on the tension between ideological conviction and personal fallibility.

Her theatre piece, Never Have I Ever, harnesses that very friction, with a clever, deliciously uncomfortable satire on identity, privilege, and the uneasy alliances forged in the echo chambers of progressive politics.

Katie Robertson and Chika Ikogwe in never Have I Ever. Photo © Sarah Walker

Frances-White’s play revolves around two couples: Jacq (Katie Robertson) and Kas (Sunny S Walia), an idealistic working-class duo; and their high-flying friends Tobin (Simon Gleeson) and Agaego (Chika Ikogwe), the former a smug hedge fund investor with sustainable credentials, the latter a feminist journalist celebrated within WhatsApp groups and industry-panels.

Jacq and Kas invite their friends over to the restaurant to inform them that they’re shutting their doors, and unfortunately, they won’t be getting their investment back. Judging by Zoë Rouse’s extravagant set design – Tuscan meets Turkish, multiple floors, complete with a wine cellar (which may even contain real wine) – and Rachel Lee’s ambient lighting, it’s no wonder their...