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I LOVE YOU, BRO
Johnny is a digital chameleon, able to change who he is with the stroke of a key and the click of a mouse. A skill he puts to use in an online chatroom. Posing as a girl, under the screenname AlbaJay, Johnny stumbles across someone he knows from his real life, a boy from school, MarkyMark.
The two begin a digital relationship, but as the fictional world he has created starts to collide with reality, Johnny must do whatever it takes to make sure MarkyMark loves him.
Based on true events, I Love You, Bro is a tale of love and deceit in a digital world.
“Playwright Adam Cass has woven a masterful and engrossing tale, based on real life events so bizarre and unbelievable that it seems they were always meant for the theatre.” - Claire Renton, Scene Magazine
- drama, one man show
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- 1 total
- 1 male identifying
- 12 to 16
- adult
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Johnny
Male | Teen | over 10 minutes
Starts on page 13
EXTRACT: I step into the light and it’s fame ’n glory all the way for the boy who murdered ’imself ’n lived to tell the tale tonight. Embark on this with caution me good friends, cos though every word of what follows is true you’ll also wanna know I’m a truly famous liar. Now here ’tis me exploits writ large, or some’ve ’em anyway - cos the whole telling’d fill more than one comfortable jaunt in the theatre and all I’ll say today are the bits where me tired hungry lonely mind really leapt from one big dare to the next
Adult themesREVIEW: I LOVE YOU, BRO | LA BOITE THEATRE COMPANY
ADRIENNE GROSS, AUSTRALIAN STAGE, 17 MAY 2012
"It's a comedy-tragedy that just happens to be set in the pre-Facebook days, not unike classics such as Cyrano de Bergerac and Romeo and Juliet before it. The internet is but a tool humans use to fulfil their desires. I Love You, Bro captures the essence of infatuation and the extremes to which some people will go to make their fantasies a reality."
ARTICLE: I LOVE YOU, BRO
ROBIN USHER, THE AGE, 12 FEBRUARY 2009
Ash Flanders, star of the Malthouse Theatre's production of I Love You, Bro, talks to The Age about the play and its inspiration.
REVIEW: ONE-ACT HIT A MUST-SEE
PETER WILKINS, THE CANBERRA TIMES, 18 MAY 2012
"Funny and sad, honest and raw, I Love You, Bro holds the mirror to our age and the webcam to our nature. A thought-provoking commentary on our time, La Boite's production of I Love You, Bro should not be missed."
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