Experience the world premiere of Day (After Day) In The Life Of The Useless by Will O’Mahony, a brand-new commission by Black Swan State Theatre Company.

Pete’s been dumped. Days before the wedding, his fiancée calls him “a robot”, and bails for a new lover. So, he does what anyone would do: turns to AI for advice. “The best revenge is living well,” it replies in all of 1.49 seconds.  

What follows is a spiral of outrageous encounters, disastrous own-goals, and spectacular bad luck, as Pete stumbles through a world that seems determined to leave him behind.  

Unravelling in 45 chapters, this darkly hilarious new work asks: What happens when the world moves faster than our legs can run? If you’ve been kicked off the bus of life, is there any chance of climbing back on? And is it possible our AI overlords are among us, hiding in plain sight? 

The venue is wheelchair-accessible and has an Sennheiser Infrared Assisted Hearing System. Accessible performances include Closed Captioning (12 Sep), Auslan interpretation (15 Sep), and Audio Description with a tactile tour (19 Sep), with ACROD parking available at the State Library, Cultural Centre, and Roe Street car parks.