Skins star Megan Prescott is bringing her debut one-woman show to Soho Theatre following its Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2024.
Really Good Exposure is described as a one-woman show, a decade in the making, about a woman’s journey from child stardom to sex work
Actor, writer and sex-work advocate Prescott is known for her role as Katie Fitch in Generation 2 of Channel 4’s Skins, but found herself needing to explore myriad occupations to keep the rent money coming in as she auditioned for new roles.
Desperate to continue acting, Megan worked as a nanny, a bartender, a bodybuilder, a gin distillery tour guide and a children’s entertainer to support herself in the decade following her Skins debut. But, as the cost of living crept ever higher and the jobs flexible enough to fit around auditions stopped paying enough to cover basic expenses, Megan started working as a stripper and subsequently an OnlyFans content creator.
It was this last part of the journey, and the attention and risk of social stigma (and the much-needed income which funded Megan taking her show to the Fringe in the first place) that came with it, that formed the inspiration for her debut Edinburgh Fringe show, Really Good Exposure.
The show builds on Megan’s life experience to tell the story of Molly Thomas, a fictional former child star whose career peaked in her teens. Molly, is approaching 30, in a bad place financially and has a career that never quite regained the dizzying heights of her teenage triumphs. Molly is skint. Molly is considering getting into porn. What happened in the intervening years to lead Molly down such a…well, unexpected path? And what, if anything, is waiting at the end of that path for her to find?
Examining the ways in which we treat those who are paid to perform, and why some types of performance are celebrated while others are demonised, Really Good Exposure follows Molly from a child, idolising teen-bride Disney princesses, to a teenager, let loose unchaperoned in a pre-#MeToo world of child stars, to strip clubs and casting couches, to the present-day choices Molly is faced with. Though she has always been paid to perform, Molly will find out how some types of performance are viewed very differently…
Really Good Exposure runs at Soho Theatre from Tuesday, September 2 to Saturday, September 13. Tickets here.
Top image: Megan Prescott, Really Good Exposure. Credit Steve Ullathorne (image supplied)