Sage Saperstein (Edlow) is 22 years old, and has seen it all and done it all – she’s a recovering addict, has had more lovers than she can remember, and has been off the marching powder for over three months – and tonight, she is getting ready for a blind date.

Unsurprisingly, she is utterly cynical about whether she can make it through this date – let alone the trials and tribulations of daily New York life – without a snifter of something powder or alcoholic to see her through, reasoning that she is happier when “skinny, fun and coked-up.”

We follow her as she gets ready, arrives at the restaurant, and takes several trips to the bathroom to steel herself because, despite her witty but foul mouth and her hellish preconceptions, this guy seems to be pretty OK – and hasn’t made his excuses yet. And then he turns up at her apartment, just as her plastic bag has come out: what’s a girl to do?

A cross between Barbara Hershey and Minnie Driver – but softer and cuter – Edlow is a tough cookie, and her show is a kind of cross between the wicked movie The Opposite Of Sex and a nearer-the-knuckle Sex & The City – dare I say one that would be set in L.A.?

She was a little nervous to start with – after all, she is alone on the stage for pretty much an hour – but once the vitriol started to flow, the audience was laughing, gasping and slowly started to love her just a little bit. By the end, we were all rooting for her. Director Craig Carlisle should take credit for making it all work, and helping show the rough edge of love and life.

Presented by Lemonade Productions and directed by Craig Carlisle (of Aspen Comedy Festival fame).