We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now

We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now, a quirky new upbeat theatrical performance written by VCA Master of Writing for Performance graduate Ellen Grimshaw, and directed by Sarah Vickery, opens the 2021 Theatre Works season.

The unique viewing experience presented by Theatre Works' new seating arrangements, re-designed into six Covid compliant perspex booths, coalesces with this outrageous non-linear theatrical performance art show, performed by a commendably buffoonish cast of seven - Angelica Angwin, Henry Kelly, Hannah Lagudah, Romaine McSweeney, Vivian Nguyen, Alexander Thew and Yuchen Wang.

Director Vickery has enabled the cast to create a playful romp of zany characters driven by expressions of self-doubt, anxiety, sex, drugs, memory and lifestyle demands. The undefined characters are loose, wayward and buoyantly exuberant with loads of farcical energy. The set design and costumes by Bethany Fellows are both colourful, vibrant and befittingly eccentric. The lighting design by Gabe Bethune is synchronically chaotic and edgy.

The hazy line between art performance and theatre makes this production difficult to define. However, I feel the production might work better, though, if it was tightened down to an hour.

Flora Georgiou

Photographer: Pia Johnson