YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL
PRESENTED BY ROGUE PROJECTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH BAKEHOUSE THEATRE.
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Dan meets an attractive stranger, setting off a series of events that threaten to derail his life. Meanwhile his girlfriend, Ellie, is under increasing pressure at work and is hounded by a powerful force. April is a student teacher and has a key to your apartment...
You’re Not Special is a dark comedy about life and love in the modern age. It’s about how our interactions with the world are changing before our eyes and robbing us of basic human experiences. It’s about where we are heading as a species and what we have done to ourselves. But most of all, it’s about you.
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AUDREY JOURNAL: YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL: RESISTANCE IS USEFUL by Sam O’Sullivan
Sam O'Sullivan's new play examines what effect our culture of effortless consumerism has on aspects of our lives that reward hard work.
REVIEWS.
You’re Not Special is a meditation on love and human connection – tender, poignant, painful, funny and sad – from one of the most original voices in Australian theatre. SYDNEY ARTS GUIDE.
O'Sullivan's script is biting, funny and more than a little dangerous. You're Not Special may be a new Australian work, but it certainly has a long future on our stages. WEEKEND NOTES.
★★★★ Powerful, poignant, slightly shocking and deeply relevant…You’re Not Special is a clever, provocative and thoroughly insightful piece of theatre. It will make you reflect on how you live your life… THE AU REVIEW.
O’Sullivan’s writing is wonderfully engaging, with an intellectual curiosity that sustains our keen interest. There is a passion in the way its ideas are disseminated, that gives You’re Not Special a delicious sense of urgency… SUZY WRONG.
Sam O'Sullivan's play turns the truisms of our screen-dominated lives into an original, bracing and engrossing theatre experience. AUDREY JOURNAL.
Current, comic and captivating, this is an intelligent new work that holds important observations of the modern world. BROADWAY WORLD.
This is a play taking abstract threats and placing them firmly in very real, very justified fear. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.
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