Australian Premiere of #MeToo inspired thriller YOU & ME opening in Perth

From the company that brought the award-winning The Vagina Monologues to Fringe World 2021, Lit Live presents a new, intense, emotionally charged play with a unique twist.

Lit Live is Perth’s premiere boutique literature in performance company. With professional actors and musicians, Lit Live performs regularly at a variety of interesting venues, matching brilliant international short fiction with great live music.

You & Me is a domestic drama and a psychological thriller. A young woman unexpectedly comes to meet her husband after work. She says she just fancied a date night together, but in fact she has something important to ask him…

Set in a recording studio, the two actors, Caitlin Beresford-Ord and Andrew Hale, are recording a new play but decide they want to swap roles – they are bored with playing familiar roles.

As the story unfolds, the role reversals challenge preconceptions and offer a subtle, sometimes funny, always provocative approach to a well-known, cliché-ridden issue. Though inspired by #metoo, this isn’t a story about men in positions of power, it’s a story about you and me, about ordinary people and everyday sexism.

Dan Rebellato is a leading British dramatist, and has written extensively for BBC Radio 3 and 4. He is also Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway London. Dan said:

Like most people, I was very moved by the #MeToo movement and the waves of revelations about exploitative and predatory behaviour carried out by men in the worlds of arts and politics. But I was looking for a form that would give the play a particular way into thinking about the issue.

Lit Live producer Sarah McNeill said:

As soon as I heard this play I knew it was one for our #MeToo and #TimesUp moment. It is a time for honesty, debate and active support for those brave enough to speak up. But it is also a time for empathy, and in this play of cross-casting, it has a genuinely provocative and challenging effect that will trip the listener up at certain moments.”

You & Me plays at of Aces at The Maj as part of their 2022 season, which sees 2 venues, 17 shows, 8 premieres, 70 performers and over 100 performances. The hand-picked variety program, with performances across music, cabaret, comedy, theatre, opera and magic, opens from now until Saturday February 12th at Perth’s iconic His Majesty’s Theatre.

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For tickets and more information, visit the Fringe World website.