“How do you explain the taste of blueberries to someone who has never tasted blueberries?”

Rebecca Peyton began her one-woman show by explaining the difficulty of trying to describe her big sister Kate, a BBC journalist who in 2005, at the age of 39, was shot and killed in Somalia.

Instead the show focuses on Peyton’s journey over the past few years.

During her performance she spoke about the events leading up to her sister accepting the assignment in Somalia and her reluctance to go.

She remembered the immediate aftermath, hearing the news from her mother on the phone and breaking the news herself to her brother in Charing Cross Library.

She also talked about everything that came afterwards, from the funeral arrangements to beginning the grief process, not to mention the four years spent preparing for her sister’s inquest.

The show is honest, raw and filled with sorrow and anger. But it is also funny and there were many moments when the audience laughed along with Peyton, sometimes at humorous situations which had occurred following Kate’s death, but also at the way in which she dealt with her grief.

The piece is crafted in such a way that Peyton moved seamlessly from arguing with the van hire company on the morning of her sister’s funeral, to seeing her body for the final time.

It also focuses on the kindness of strangers, who turned up on her mother’s doorstep with cottage pies, to the Somalian women who sewed a flag of their country to drape over her sister’s coffin as it was returned to the UK. Both of which reaffirmed Peyton’s belief that “people are amazing”.