Bean vs. The Robots: A Solo Show Musical

About the Project

Bean is trapped inside her spaceship. And now you’re trapped with her. Bean lost her memories and likes to play sad little songs on her keyboard in space. While she sings, you start to lose all sense of time. But don’t worry. In space, there’s always time. Or is there? As Bean performs her weird little show for you, she remembers why she, and perhaps you, needed to go to space in the first place. A sci-fi comedy exploration of grief through the wistful and weird eyes of a lost space traveller.

Bean vs. The Robots is a brand new solo show sci-fi musical. Written and performed by Michelle “Midge” Lema. Music and lyrics by Midge Lema.

Directed by Riley Rose Critchlow. Co-Produced by Alison Zatta and Riley Rose Critchlow. Additional music and backing tracks by Maxton Waller. Poster Design by Iman Salehian and Kat Wong. Photography by Marie Buck.

Bean vs. The Robots is Lema’s third solo show, and her first musical. The show will next be performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at theSpace during the month of the August. Her first solo show, Bean, was awarded Best of Hollywood Fringe and called one of the “top ten shows not to miss” at Fringe World Festival by The West Australian.

Audience Reviews for Bean vs. The Robots at Hollywood Fringe 2026:

“Equally bizarre and bravura, this self-proclaimed “weird little musical” is likely the funniest (and strangest) treatise on grief you’ll ever see.” 

“I loved this weird and lovely show traveling through space with Bean. It’s a gem. Beautifully written and performed and well-directed, this show is special.”

“I was in space yesterday in Bean’s spaceship. It was another world. A unique and original Bean-world.”

“It locked me in and rocketed me into the journey from the first moment.”

“Midge invites us into her spaceship of oddity and music and tells us we can’t leave. By the end of the show, I didn’t want to.”

“A really special one woman show that subtly reveals itself to you over time. It is weird and quirky in all the best ways.”

“A piece of theatre that could not possibly exist in any other time or place, a very special capsule of a very particular point of view.”

“Midge Lema has crafted an immersive and sweet, tender, wistful sci-fi musical that catapults you through space, time and grief.” 

“Performed by the magnetic Midge Lema, this 60-minute solo show takes the audience on a joyous, enrapturing space travel ride that blends cosmic imagination with deep human truth.”

“This show is both delightfully absurd and a profoundly vulnerable exploration of grief and the human experience.”