Sarah Kendall is first and foremost a hugely talented storyteller. She weaves the threads of her stories into a beautiful patchwork of carefully selected constituent parts like a wise seamstress, knowledgeable in her craft. And her skilful work is gently presented to us with warmth and generosity.

One Seventeen is essentially a collection of anecdotes from Kendall’s life, from childhood to 2017. The show is not structured chronologically, but the stories are held together with strong, carefully interlaced narrative bonds; there are the recurrent characters, there is the overarching question/theme - posed at the beginning of the show - about luck, and there is of course the storyteller.

‘How can you know whether a life event is a good or a bad thing until you’ve lived it out?’, Kendall asks, and asks us to ask. Through sharing her own life, she offers examples of this; from undying hamsters to poisonous snakes. Everything she does is framed by her calm, gentle humour, her keen observations and her powerful narrative voice. It’s not classic stand-up in that it’s not a laugh a minute; you have to allow yourself to take the serious with the funny, listening and engaging to see which is which.

Watching this show was a really pleasurable experience. I laughed, I cried, and I came away thinking about the unpredictable and never-finished cycle of living. What more can you ask?