Work, But This Time Like You Mean It

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the deep fryer… Work, But This Time Like You Mean It is back! Canberra Youth Theatre's smash-hit anarchic comedy about fast-food workers in a fried-chicken time-loop is tearing out of the drive-thru and touring to Sydney!

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.

It's fricken tasty!

"a madcap, skit-like experience full of joyful comedy… as good as a cheeky bit of fried chicken you weren't planning on eating, but somehow seemed to hit the spot." – City News

"A sharp-shooting shot at the employment of young people in the fast food industry. Fast is the word. In fact frenetic may be more like it… a very clever, witty, surreal satire." – Canberra Critics Circle