“Me Not You is a charming celebration of Samuel Beckett’s work, as cheeky and ironic as it is self-effacingly reverent. This is a deft, insightful, and heartfelt reflection on the continuing relevance of one of the greatest theatre artists of the twentieth century.”
— Professor Jennifer Roberts-Smith, audience member.
— Professor Jennifer Roberts-Smith, audience member.
While the Samuel Beckett Estate is famously strict about how his work can(not) be reinterpreted and reimagined for contemporary productions, we firmly believe one of the best ways to uphold and maintain tradition and former excellence is to develop and grow it with reverence. In a sense, to build new limbs from original roots. Rather than staging Beckett's own work we articulated our passion for it by creating a series of entirely new pieces. Drawing from stories that arrive through our own lives, philosophies that inspired Beckett, and in pursuit of his aesthetics, Me, Not You represents short, biting, depictions of racialized harassment, relationship politics, sex, love, and isolation. We each wrote and directed our own pieces then performed in each other's.