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I Promise This Isn’t About You (Even If It Feels Like It Is)

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I Promise This Isn’t About You (Even If It Feels Like It Is)

A new play dedicated to anyone who’s thrown it all down the toilet and regretted it in the morning

Presented as part of Melbourne Fringe from October 8 to 12, 2025 at Festival Hub: Trades Hall.

Tickets via Melbourne Fringe

”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 at an end-of-lease house party.

Amidst overlapping masculinity crises, spirals of loneliness, and queer audacity, 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.

Program

Cast & Crew

Sarah Matthews (she/her)
Writer

Carly Watson (she/they)
Director

Blake Hohenhaus (he/him)
Dramaturg

Ryan Hamilton (he/they)
Producer & Sound Designer

Georgie Wolfe (she/they)
Producer & Lighting Designer

Ella Watson (she/they)
Marketing

Mads Lou (they/them)
Actor - Max

Jo Jabalde (they/them)
Actor - Henry

Eliza Carlin (they/she)
Actor - Indie

Reuby Chip (they/them)
Actor - Luce

Ally Long (she/her)
Actor - Sav

Thank You!

Olivia Fisher, Yvonne Virsik, Jade Smith, Olly Lawrence, Mark Pritchard, Kate Speakman, Kat Cornwell, Greta Doell, Samar Uraizee, Tiernan Maclaren, Ben Andrews, Raimondo Cortese, Chris Mead, Emily Sheehan, Michele Lee, Kate Matthews, Matthew Ross, Elly D’arcy, Sophia Gray-young, Ellis Finnie, Louise Jameson, Millie Craven, Ranveer Harsh, Piper Jones-Evans, Natalia Nour, Lenore Matthews, Peter Hamilton, Leanne Evans