Mid-20s crisis resonates

'A DOLL'S LIFE': MAYHEM AS DEMANDS OF ADULTHOOD COME CRASHING DOWN

- Hein Kaiser

Everyone goes through it at some point or another. It's the moment when the early optimism of adulthood ends up with a hard landing at around age 25. Bills, breakups, bodily malfunctions and wardrobe disasters.

It's when you realise society kind of demands that you have your life somewhat together. And you're still Googling the how-to's and the don'ts of being a grown up.

Actress and writer Micaela Tucker's quarter life crisis hit particularly hard.

But rather than lament in sackcloth and ashes alone, she turned the chaos of her life into A Doll's Life.

It's a one-woman show that's about as unfiltered as it gets, and it's coming to Joburg's Theatre on the Square for a 10-day run from 19-29 March.

Tucker said she had always dreamed of creating a solo show.

"It was something I always had in the back of my mind, but I never really knew what I wanted to say," she said.