25 Mar 1988
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Alison Spittle: Soup
Comedian du jour, Alison Spittle is simmering with jokes and probably rage, she doesn't know what the burning sensation is.
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