You're Not Special at Kings Cross Theatre

SUZY GOES SEE
"wonderfully engaging... authentic and powerful"

AU REVIEW
“powerful, poignant, slightly shocking and deeply relevant.”

SYDNEY ARTS GUIDE
"Elegantly and energetically directed by Samantha Young, YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL is a meditation on love and human connection – tender, poignant, painful, funny and sad – from one of the most original voices in Australian theatre"

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"this is a play taking abstract threats and placing them firmly in very real, very justified fear"

WEEKEND NOTES
"You're Not Special by Sam O'Sullivan packs a punch at KXT... funny, relatable and disturbing."

World Premiere Season 5-20 March Kings Cross Theatre

From the writer of The Block Universe and The Wind in the Underground, comes a wicked new play about relationships, intimacy, and the dangerous line between truth and fiction in the digital age.
Three lives unfold and everyday occurrences take on a pattern, forming connections that no one saw coming.

Maybe the stranger in the park isnt a stranger.
Maybe our work is designed to destroy us.
Maybe everything we do has been carefully planned and choice is an illusion. Directed by Samantha Young,

Youre Not Special is Sam OSullivan''s much-anticipated new work, a darkly comic look at life and love in the modern age. Its about how our interactions with the world are changing before our eyes and robbing us of human experience. Its about where we are heading as a species and what we have done to ourselves.

But most of all, its about you.

Dont miss this strictly limited season featuring stellar performances from Kate Skinner (Anatomy of a Suicide), Ariadne Sgouros (This Bitter Earth, Coram Boy), and the Sydney stage debut of ACA graduate Arkia Ashraf.

The world premiere production is presented by Rogue Projects in association with Bakehouse Theatre Co. You're Not Special was originally commissioned by Phil Spencer as a short work for Griffin Theatres From Scratch Festival, before development at the KXT Storytellers Festival in 2019 with Dramaturg Dominic Mercer.