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Weather Girl, at until 5 April, is a frantic and funny one-woman show about the looming climate apocalypse.

Written by Brian Watkins, it stars Julia McDermott as Stacey, a local weather forecaster in Fresno, California. Sandwiched between segments on dog shows and testicular tanning, her reports on the droughts and wildfires in her state are always delivered with a winning smile – until, one day, she snaps.

Weather Girl is an attack on wilful ignorance – of climate change, naturally, but also of the plight of women like Stacey, whose appearance is coveted and policed by her colleagues and viewers alike. She lives in a reality where she must pretend nothing is wrong and everything is permitted. Everyone knows that Stacey isn’t OK and the world is burning, but openly acknowledging those facts would mean reckoning with too many convenient lies.

The unravelling of Stacey’s on-screen persona – what you might call the uncanny valley girl, a too-perfect performance of ultra-femininity – is electrifying. Think meets meets .