Verona Verbakel's solo show, 'OnlyFans for Therapy', is currently running at Zoo Playground in Edinburgh. The production, part of the Big in Belgium programme, is scheduled to continue until August 30.
The show explores a woman's painful recovery from trauma, including abuse suffered as a five-year-old and a subsequent investigation when she was 18. Verbakel, as the writer and performer, suggests that using an online medium for such honest purposes could be cheaper than traditional therapy, estimating a lifetime of recovery could require 2,599 psychiatrist sessions at £70 each.
The performance features Verbakel sitting at a laptop, showing a sequence of first-person videos. These videos vary in tone, from a drily comic list of emotional triggers to painful expeditions to the scene of the original abuse, where the actor reportedly breaks down.