If you crack apart the perfumed shell of what happy women today should be like, what unseen, shivering creature lurks inside? This is the question the girls at I’m Trying to Kiss You try to answer in their performance ‘I Know There’s a lot of Noise Outside But You Have to Close Your Eyes’.

Prepare to enter a claustrophobic dollhouse where two women stretch out all the ideas they’ve ever had about who they are, how they feel and what they want. A quietly domestic kitchen becomes a place where shadows terrify, cobwebs are left gathering and mirrors and candlelight play tricks on your mind.

Something is not right at Greeves St.

The bubbly, sweet surface of a girls night quickly disintegrates into a place of insecurity and psychosis, fear, loneliness and uncertainty. Watch as Anna McCarthy and Zoey Dawson skillfully take characters Katie and Imogen to their full limits – through their surface personas, their underlying desperation and their quiet, internal place of fear.

‘I Know There’s a lot of Noise Outside’ is impressively well crafted and performed, breathing a life of it’s own. The intricate rhythm that is breathed into lighting, sound, dialogue and movement keep you sutured into the trembling world of the I’m Trying To Kiss You woman. You do not leave Greeves St in a careless hurry, but saunter out, slightly unsettled and contemplative.

There are distant echoes of Sarah Kane’s poetic intensity in the pleas of Katie and Imogen, but ‘I Know There’s a lot of Noise Outside’ is quite rightfully a play of it’s own conception. It is clear that the women involved in this production have thought deeply about the women they are and the women they wish to present.

I Know There’s a lot of Noise Outside is an exercise in smashing crockery, stripping wallpaper and burning cigarette holes of frustration into your favourite dress. If you have ever failed to get what you want, you will not sit in your chair indifferent.

If there is one polished, well-executed show at Fringe you were to see this year, make this one it.