”Oi! Dickhead! Stop munting in my agapanthus!”

Set entirely in a share-house toilet, five young people in Melbourne’s southeast are thrown together for a night of bacchanalia and melancholy amidst an end-of-lease house party.

Amidst overlapping masculinity crises, spirals of loneliness, and queer hubris, I Promise This Isn’t About You follows the relentless discontentment of youth while the party rages on outside.

As they watch themselves cross the threshold of adulthood in real time – interrupted by breakups, betrayals, and a gatecrashing little sister – they’re faced with the daunting, yet liberating, realisation that their relationships will never be the same.

Written by emerging playwright Sarah Matthews, I Promise This Isn’t About You explores love in all its overlapping forms amidst the mess of life in twenty-first-century Melbourne.

Sarah is a recent graduate of the VCA Master of Theatre (Writing). She is currently under commission with Canberra Youth Theatre and has developed work with both Australian Theatre for Young People and VIMH.