Actor Gabrielle Scawthorn makes an attention-grabbing playwriting debut with The Edit, a biting satirical drama that drags its audience to the bottom of the swamp of contemporary celebrity.

The action is set behind the scenes of a plausible-sounding reality dating show, Match or Snatch. A new season is being cast and a young and determined social media influencer Nia (Iolanthe) is desperate to be part of it. She really is looking for love, not just ‘likes’, she tells one of the show’s producers, the very capable and friendly-seeming Jess (Matilda Ridgway).

It’s Jess job to make sure Mia can handle the pressures of a reality TV stint and play her predestined part in the unfolding ‘drama’ of the show. In that regard at least, Nia is more than amenable. She’ll do whatever it takes to be there at crunch time. 

Then a late-night incident in the Match or Snatch house derails everything. Jess is determined to keep it quiet to protect the franchise; Nia demands justice (or something commercially advantageous). As the two become locked in a struggle for the control of their own destinies, layers of lies are stripped away. The extreme lengths to which each will go to leverage...