"... quite masterly suspensful theatre..." - dB Magazine "... a bop-along-in-your-seat pop masterpiece..." - Adelaide Advertiser "...this is a radio-phonic opera that Wagner may have written in 2007: complex, makes you work but the work is worth it..." Joy FM
"...Everything’s F***ed is one of the most positive and untraditional listening experiences I have had for very, very long, no categories barred. ..."Fredrik Fisher - Opera Magazine
"Sean Peter is dragging music theatre kicking and cursing into the 21st Century..." - JJJ radio
How do you find something worth believing in, in a world where everything’s fucked?
Jack, Red, Belle and Adam share a house under the flight path in an Australian city somewhere. Jack climbs the corporate beanstalk, while his partner Red is lost in work, faith and life. Belle, half awake, takes sex calls while watching TV, as Adam lives more in his computer than in the real world.
Set against the life changing events of September 11 2001, Everything’s Fucked shows how faith, love, and resilience get us through the day and on with our lives, as the world falls down around us. Using a contemporary beat- driven soundtrack, EF presents an instantly recognisable slice of modern life.
Everything’s Fucked was originally presented as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s inspace series. Though little more than a staged reading, the workshop showing sold out, creating a rapturous response amongst audiences and critics alike. The work was named in all major critics best of, and received numerous writing and performance awards. EF has garnered national and international interest even while in its formative stages.
The full production was mounted in 2007 by the Adelaide Festival Centre to critical acclaim.
The filmclip was directed by my oldest friend, Stafford Wales, and thanks must go to him, and all my other friends who joined us on the bus, driving around and around on Easter Monday.
So, huge thanks to Hugh Coffey, Cameron Undy, Gavin Pawsey, Nicola Fell, Kath Ellis, Tristian Standish, Sarah Standish, Geoff Crowhurst (nice toupee Geoff), Velalien, Bob Scott (who also mixed the track), , Morag Mirankar (Camera Assistant), Mandi Mattern (who did our makeup) , Bonnie Elliot (Our Briliiant D.O.P.), as well as our cast, Andre Eikmeier, Alex Jenkins and Lisa Sontag.
And biggest thanks of course to Abbie Cardwell, who makes this song special every time she sings it.
