Fuck Off and Leave Me Alone

From across a sea of life, middle-aged Juliet shouts at an emo teenage Juliet. She misses her and wonders if they can hang out. Can they? A comedy career abruptly put on hold due to the impracticalities of being on the road with two small children, Fuck Off and Leave Me Alone takes us full circle to two distinct periods in Juliet’s life, both strung out by hormones – her angsty teenage self, obsessed with gerbils, make-up and stealing meat off her mother’s plate – to present day mid-life. She explores this no-man’s-land where women are either assumed to ‘have a cunning plan or no idea what the fuck they’re doing’ and never anything in between. Book-ended at the cusp of both adult and geriatric life, Juliet takes us on a racy journey of celebrating the joy of being alive (at any age). We hear from her early years, plagued by the omnipresent threat of another nuclear war, to becoming a parent, leaving her marriage, going mad and running round like a Roman Emperor (also known as the menopause…).