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Australian PREMIERE Part pop concert, part standup cabaret, Young Jean Lee’s upbeat WE’RE GONNA DIE is a wry, engaging celebration of the inevitability of death – and some of the terrible things that can happen on the way there. Theatre One of America’s most acclaimed experimental playwrights, Young Jean Lee has a habit of challenging herself with intensely personal works. Having skewered US race-relations with THE SHIPMENT, and delved into her own evangelical Christian upbringing in CHURCH, she now brings to Melbourne Festival a charming, satirical and intimate cabaret mashup of personal tragedy, in the form of busted relationships, public humiliation and family calamity – all set to quirky pop tunes. Both honest and humorous, WE’RE GONNA DIE is Lee’s tenacious celebration of a universal truth we often prefer to forget: that each of us will encounter moments of indignity and illness, isolation and despair, en route to our inevitable end – and, in the end, that’s okay. Written & Performed by Young Jean Lee Music Future Wife Choreography Faye Driscoll Director Paul Lazar Future Wife Mike Hanf, Andrew Hoepfner, Nick Jenkins, Ben Kupstas, Young Jean Lee Associate Director Morgan Gould