I might spend my last moments asking someone if they want large or regular chips. I might die in this polo shirt. Oh my God I might die in this hat. They will find my fossilised remains and then carbon test me and find out that I was wearing this hat.
Winner of the 2022 Emerging Playwright Commission
Neon lighting has dried out your eyeballs. The grease has permeated your sneakers. You think you can hear salt. A group of fast food workers are just trying to get through another shift. They're underpaid and overworked and the customers keep coming and time is moving backwards and they need to stop working.
Work, But This Time Like You Mean It is a darkly surreal comedy about young people's first experiences in the workplace. It's about having a good work ethic on less-than-minimum wage. It's about perseverance when you just want to curl up under the counter and cry. It's an unhinged, deep-fryer-dive into deeply human relationships, forged within the most alienating of circumstances.
It's fricken tasty.
Pageboy to your unruly subconscious, HONOR WEBSTER-MANNISON is a performer, theatre-maker and playwright, currently based on Wurundjeri Country. Honor uses collaborative devising and writing methods to make experimental performance work. Their practice explores fluid spaces where various theatrical elements such as text, design, sound and movement emerge simultaneously. Performance works that Honor has co-created include Deep Breath In (Dead Puppets Society’s LAB); Sludge Bank (Metro Arts’ Young Artist Forum); This Fantastic Plastic Planet (Backbone Festival); and Sometimes It’s Hot Like the Sun (Festival of Australian Student Theatre). Honor’s short work Bottlefeeders was staged by the Australian Theatre for Young People as part of the 2017 Voices Project. They completed their Masters of Theatre (Writing) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2022. In 2023, Honor received the Canberra Youth Theatre Emerging Playwright Commission to write Work, But This Time Like You Mean It.
| Cast Info | 5F, 3M |
| Genres | Drama, Comedy, Satire, YA/Children's Theatre |
| Themes | Large Cast |
| Audiences | Adult, Young Adult |
| Extent | 68 |
| Edition | CTS |
| Size | 137 x 210 mm |
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