The Worst Person in the World, coming to Australian theatres this month after a splashy debut at Cannes, is the kind of story that can knock you on your heels – its saga of constant, vague doubt about one’s own path in life is achingly familiar.

Reichardt’s concern throughout First Cow, it seems, is with people, and the consequences of the structures to which they are subject. That much is clear from the film’s framing device, which I won’t ruin here – this story, astonishingly tender and beautiful as it is, isn’t content to just give the audience likable characters developing an endearing friendship that you like to watch.

This new work by writer/performer Ellen Grimshaw, We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now is a raucous, delightfully heightened piece of theatre that tears open the facades and toxicities we’ve all come to accept in our daily life.