Don't Panic! It's Challenge Anneka

In a bid to fill the room with a glow of warm-hearted benevolence, Don't Panic! star Sophie Winter greets her audience with bagfuls of wholesome playground refreshments. “Just help yourself,” she casually remarks before setting them down and beginning her show in earnest. Of course, this advice comes loaded with significance when featured in the preamble to a treatise on mental health.

Sufferers of anxiety are too often told to overcome the condition using willpower alone, deprived of the more generous support afforded to those with physical ailments. There's an interesting discussion to be had on the extent to which it's the individual's responsibility to manage their own mental wellbeing, and Winter's show seems poised to address this issue.

Performing as both Holly Bradshaw, a London teacher struggling with the stresses of modern life, and Welsh broadcasting hero Anneka Rice, the star slips in and out of each character while interacting with pre-recorded footage of both. Her meta-dialogue promises moments of raw self examination, yet Winter is lacking in insight and information. “It's just such a horrible feeling,” she helpfully explains of panic attacks.

Were Winter to take a more unflinching and confessional approach, she could have something vital and moving on her hands. Likewise, audiovisual techniques could be better used to evoke the harrowing experiences to which she pays lip service.

When Holly finally berates herself for not enjoying a life of relative privilege, using the phrase “pull yourself together”, it's unclear whether or not her creator is actually advocating this notoriously short-sighted solution.