Drawing freely on cinema, television, and theatre, What’s Not to Love? layers its own text with fragments from All About Eve, the HBO series Six Feet Under, and improvised dialogues between the performers. The result is an ironic and playful meta-piece that slides from wit and parody into melancholy, revealing how we script our lives while life keeps rewriting us.

Performed with flair by Kate Strong, Yvonne Øyen, Anthony Rizzi, and Daniel Proietto, the cast vaults from lip-sync to confession, from deadpan to dance, often within a single breath. Their transformations unfold like a cabaret of contradictions: vaudeville sketches next to hushed monologues, drag and glamour against moments of startling sincerity.

The choreography — anchored by Proietto’s virtuosic dancing — fractures the text into beats and loops, giving the piece its restless rhythm. Dialogue is replayed, improvised, or lip-synched, creating a sense that the characters are rehearsing themselves as much as their roles. In between, there is waiting: the pauses in which desire, vulnerability, and self-doubt surface.

At its heart, the work circles around the question implied by its title. Can everything be loved? Or is love itself just another part to be played? By staging its material as both homage and parody, What’s Not to Love? reveals the beauty, humour, and sadness hidden inside performance itself.