In my opinion, the term impressive' is over-used - but it's difficult to find another word to describe Lizzie Hopley's Pramface.

Writing a play is one thing, starring in your own masterpiece is something totally different. But playing two characters in a play you have written is nothing short of impressive.

And Lizzie manages to pull it off in every sense of the word.

Pramface, a critically acclaimed dark comedy, provides its audience with an insight into the effects of celebrity culture on contemporary society, and has won the prestigious British Council Plat du Jour and been the hit of the Edinburgh Festival.

And now the play, which is directed by Sarah Chew, can add being the hit of the Warehouse Theatre to its growing list of accolades.

Pramface is a story about a chavette whose obsession with celebrity culture goes fatally out of control.

It seems like any other girl overcome by the barrage of the world that is celebrity, but as the play progresses, you see there is a sinister side to the Scouse teenager - something Lizzie portrays to perfection.

Playing a character with such a Jekyll and Hyde persona is something that many performers have tried but subsequently fallen flat on their faces, but Lizzie gets the balance just right.

The second character Lizzie plays is a stereotypical cut-throat reporter for one of the array of glossy celebrity magazines that have taken society by storm in recent years.

She eventually feels the wrath of Pramface as the teenager's obsession with celebrity spirals out of control.

The reporter is very much the secondary character in the play, but nonetheless, Lizzie once again excels in the portrayal of a woman who will stop at nothing to get that all-important celebrity scoop.

Rightly or wrongly one-man (or in this case woman) productions always make me sceptical before I see them. In some cases it makes it very hard to follow the story, particularly if the performer has to play more than one character.

But Lizzie plays it to perfection and, thanks to subtle costume and dialect alterations during the production, it was easy to follow the thought provoking plot.

So, in one word, impressive.