Work, But This Time Like You Mean It
Overview
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the deep fryer. Work, But This Time Like You Mean It is back. Upstage Youth Theatre’s smash hit anarchic comedy about fast food workers in a fried-chicken time loop is tearing out of the drive thru by Honor Webster-Mannison, to Sun Street Studios this November.
Winner of the 2022 Emerging Playwright Commission, Work, But This Time Like You Mean It by Honor Webster-Mannison 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.
UpStage Youth Theatre is a Maitland based company empowering young performers through hands on drama training and productions.