LHAS Presents... Work, But This Time Like You Mean It

PRESENTED BY THE LITTLE HALL ARTS SOCIETY

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.

A play so good, it makes you want to lick your fingers ;)

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

This performance will be accompanied by live captioning. The Guild Theatre provides wheelchair access and seating. Audience members please be advised that this show contains flashing, intense lighting and the use of haze.

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CONTENT WARNINGS

Work, But This Time Like You Mean It contains themes and depictions that some audiences may find confronting.

Contains coarse language and humour, graphic and gory imagery, references to drug use, underage drinking, sexual relationships, violence and graphic harm, as well as depictions of workplace injury, unsafe working conditions, and poor mental health. In short, just about everything you’d expect in an unhinged portrayal of young people’s first workplace experiences.