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Story summary
- Elf Lyons stages “The Woman on the Edge,” featuring a Norma Desmond-style alter ego who narrates amid smoke.
- The show mixes audio of Lyons’s friends and family discussing her breakup with a Thai romance episode and an “opera” collage of men’s remarks.
- A subplot about Apollo 13 serves as a metaphor for Lyons’s search for love, while the collage-style structure blends spoken word, dialogue, and music into a fragmented post-breakup portrait.
