 Celeste is thirty: lonely, broke, and utterly unmoored after a painful breakup. With only Lulu—a snarky Furby with a streak of chaotic wisdom as her unlikely spiritual guide, Celeste attempts to navigate the wreckage of her life: the heartbreak, the stalled writing career, and the creeping existential dread of feeling like you’re doing everything “right” and still getting nowhere.
Celeste is a modern mess but self-aware enough to recognise her flaws, speaking fluent therapy-speak and claims to be the “main character” in her life. And yet, behind the curated self-care and affirmations, she’s emotionally adrift. When success doesn’t come, when love walks away, when your ‘healing journey’ doesn’t heal you then what? SPOILER WARNING! Then comes the twist: Lulu the Furby declares she has been God since Celeste turned 25. Whether this is a literal truth, a psychotic break, or a metaphor for the crushing responsibility of trying to “fix” your life in a broken world is left wonderfully ambiguous. But the implication is clear—Celeste has been carrying the burden of not just her own unhappiness, but the idea that it’s somehow her job to sort out the chaos around her too. SPOILERS END! The play grapples with a central, millennial dilemma: if you can fix yourself, can you fix the world? But what if you can’t do either? It pokes at the cruel optimism baked into modern self-help culture, the hijacking of wellness by the middle class, and the nagging sense that no matter how much good you do, the world keeps falling apart anyway and the next crisis is always around the corner. Goodness Me is a surreal portrait of burnout, identity, and the myth of personal responsibility in an era of global crisis. It captures the pressure of living up to the promises millennials were sold about success, love, and purpose and the heartbreak of realising they were never truly guaranteed. Lee Hutchison Goodness Me Venue: Summerhall Dates: August 6th - 23rd (excluding 10th and 17th) Time: 2010 Tickets: www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/goodness-me |
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