Everyone should see work.txt. The play, if it can be called a play, is an immersive show experienced collectively through audience interaction. Because of this experimental quirk, your experience of the will obviously differ from mine. This does make it somewhat difficult to review having only seen it once, as it’s entirely possible that the experiment lives and dies depending on who is (or isn’t) in the room.

Nathan Ellis said, "I wrote the show as a sort of satire of the always-on, never-stopping work culture, and then the whole world stopped because of COVID. As the pandemic recedes, it's fascinating and depressing to see how the energy of just-getting-going-again is mirrored by the play. I hope work.txt asks big questions about why we're all working so hard, and if we can't imagine a different sort of relationship to work. The show is about community and working together and play - it literally doesn't happen without the audience, so I'm thrilled it's happening in-person again at the Soho Theatre. I'm excited to get to work." There are some parts of work.txt that I have struggled to remember, but I think all of these parts can be suitably covered with the following summary: you spend an hour anxiously watching the side of your screen to be sure you don’t miss a task sent to you by the chat function. You are so busy making sure you do your work on time that it makes it difficult to do anything else. Preoccupied with the internal and external idiosyncrasies of the weather, this piece is slow, careful, quiet, rambling at times. As an audience member you are forced to slow down with it, and go where it's taking you. Read our full review here. Photo: Aidan Moseby

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I do carry a notepad around. I think that’s a writer’s prerogative! But really all my best inspiration happens when I’m walking around and reading. I also find a lot of inspiration in seeing other people’s work – it’s incredibly helpful to spend time thinking about what I like and don’t like in other people’s art to try to hone my own craft. I find it particularly helpful to see theatre I don’t like very much; I’ve had some of my most exciting ideas while incredibly bored in an audience. Hopefully some writers will come and hate my play and write something brilliant as a result! Berardi, Franco, “What Does Congnitariat Mean? Work, Desire and Depression.”, Cultural Studies Review, vol 11, issue 2, (2005), pg. 1. The indistinctness of work in modern society does not simply result in ‘working too much’ but in a deeper problem that creates the need to overwork. As our work becomes less visible, we feel that we are not working enough, must work harder. Simultaneously, the fruits of our labours become increasingly obscured, making it more difficult for us to recognise the value in our work. He is in a friend group called 이즈 (ee-z) with Stray Kids I.N, Enhypen Heeseung and Just B Lim Jimin. (Beomgyu’s vLive – Dec 2, 2021)

Once a play is in the director’s hands, how much creative input do you generally get during the rehearsal process? Is it hard to let go of the baby , or do you fully embrace other creatives taking the reins or bringing their ideas to the table? An adaptation of Ellis’s recent show work.txt, it mixes existential soul-searching with wry comedy, tempered by the quiet cry of a world yearning to reinvent itself. In A Fairie Tale, Niall Moorjani seamlessly blends the threads of racial identity, queerness and folklore to create a fantastical and poignant picture of modern Scotland. Read the full review here. Photo: Niall Moorjani