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What to Do When Everyone You Know is Dead
by Gytha Lodge
It is Rex’s 25th birthday party, and 123 party guests and one DJ are there to celebrate it with him. All is going well for Rex. He is basking in his popularity, and has even finally got the nerve up to make his move on the lovely Holly. But he is sadly interrupted in his seduction, first of all by the prank-addicted Stevie, who sellotapes him to a beer barrel in his boxers; and secondly by an overly-successful suicide that takes out the entire building. Rex is the only one left alive, and kept company only by an infuriating self-help voiceover. With the help (or hindrance) of the voice’s cheerful encouragements, Rex tries to come to terms with one of the worst things that can happen to a person. By turns dark, moving, and surprisingly amusing, What to Do is a play that puts absolute hardship onstage, and still finds something good to take away from it.
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