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