One of America’s most acclaimed experimental playwrights, Young Jean Lee has a habit of challenging herself with intensely personal works. Having skewered US race-relations with THE SHIPMENT, and delved into her own evangelical Christian upbringing in CHURCH, she now brings to Melbourne Festival a charming, satirical and intimate cabaret mash-up of personal tragedy, in the form of busted relationships, public humiliation and family calamity – all set to quirky pop tunes.

Performing solo, with the accompaniment of a live band, the formidable Young Jean Lee bares herself with peppy songs and raw anecdotes; with each rousing tragicomic sing-along, she touches on moments of solace and fleeting kindness. Confronting the void with pitch-black humour and perky pop grooves, Lee takes centre stage to sing, dance and laugh, kicking back at the dark.

Both honest and humorous, WE’RE GONNA DIE is Lee’s tenacious celebration of a universal truth we often prefer to forget: that each of us will encounter moments of indignity and illness, isolation and despair, en route to our inevitable end – and, in the end, that’s okay.

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