Kat is moving out of the apartment she shares with ex-boyfriend Ben.  Helping her are Thea, her best friend, and Josh, the new man in her life.  Ben (who's not even meant to be there) is hurt and angry and still in love with Kat. But is it now too late to telll her?  Named one of the Daily Telegraph's Top Ten Shows at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival, this is yet another Accidental Productions Australian premiere! 
First performed by Andy Jordan Productions in August 2007 at the Edinburgh Festival.

Snippets from reviews:-
"Worlds End is a gem of a production performed by an ensemble of fine young actors" - Australian Stage On-line - Stephanie Johnson.
"Under the direction of Joh Hartog, with design by Tammy Boden, this is a play that has you siding, back and forth many times.....even in the last ten minutes, the outcome is anyone's guess or is it really?" Adelaide Theatre Guide - Richard Flynn.
"Barden gives a most moving and compassionate interpretation in a superb performance, Mark Fantasia plays the emotionally manipulative Ben, Alice Darling and Matt Crook (create) more than the script might suggest." Rip It Up - Barry Lenny

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Accidental Productions
Bakehouse Theatre
Until 30 May 2009

Review by Richard Flynn – Adelaide Theatre Guide

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if ending a relationship was always quick, clean and free of feelings of devastation, abandonment, anger, surprise, betrayal, bitterness, revenge, injustice, violence, despair, elation (any or all of the above!) as we moved on to begin, or drift into, sooner or later, the next one?
These are the issues presented in Accidental Productions’ Australian premiere of British writer Paul Sellar’s “Worlds End” seen first in London last year – a work the author calls ‘a deceptively simple play’. Excellent description because no relationship is ever simple - nor even predictable.

Nowhere would you find four young actors to develop this truism better than Mark Fantasia (in a finely tuned performance as the ‘dumped’, but still tenacious, young man, Ben), Jessica Barnden (brilliant as Kat, his live-in for the past two years), Alice Darling (her best friend, Thea, with more dark recesses than you’d first expect of an ‘unconditionally loyal’ best friend) and Matthew Crook (as Josh, the new squeeze Kat has left Ben for).
Under the direction of Joh Hartog, with design by Tammy Boden, this is a play – surprisingly running only 70 minutes in total – that has you siding, back and forth many times, with each of the four characters, at first hoping Kat will finish packing everything in sight into one of the many cardboard boxes and close the chapter on this good-for-nothing Ben, whom she expected would be out when she returned to remove her belongings; then with Ben, who seems to have at least one genuine complaint – that Kat just left him without as much as a word; then Thea, the flinty, seemingly in control and distanced, glamour girl; and finally Josh, perhaps the best example of the sacrificial lamb you’d find in a play not really about him at all!
Even in the last ten minutes, with the room now bereft of all its opening furniture and paraphernalia, the outcome is anyone’s guess – or is it really? Didn’t we know what was coming? If we are surprised, then maybe we really need to go back to the start and begin by acknowledging seriously that it is in the nature of every world to end, yet we still haven’t found a satisfactory way to cope when they do.

Your ‘Thought for Today’: All worlds end – no exceptions - so live with it!
 

WORLDS END - Australian Stage On-Line Review  – by Stephanie Johnson.
Worlds End is a gem of a production performed by an ensemble of fine young actors in a small theatrette in Adelaide’s city centre.

This play is a real treat on a cold May night in Adelaide city. Playwright Paul Sellar portrays the heartache of broken relationships. This brilliant script strips any social comfort and lays bare the truth of a relationship that initially bloomed and then withered and now leaves both parties to pick up the broken shards of their lives and carry on. This is not for the feint-hearted and perhaps should come with a warning – “not for anyone whose relationship wounds are recent”. Nevertheless for those who are more detached it is a brilliant, and yet, sad indictment of the fall-out of a relationship that has gone off the rails.
The world is indeed ending for Ben (Mark Fantasia) as his ex Kat (Jessica Barnden) comes around to move her belongings from their shared flat. Kat expects Ben to be conveniently absent, but Ben is anything but convenient and so Kat has to contend with his menacing presence as she packs away her possessions.
Fantasia and Barnden are quick to establish a palpable tension that can only exist between ex-lovers with unresolved pain. Little by little this accomplished pair of actors reveal the bewilderment, nostalgia, disappointment, pain and broken psyches that are the result of their passion gone awry. Fantasia’s Ben is muliti-layered. He is a cynical, annoying, irresponsible, infuriating, intelligent and insightful young man, who eventually elicits a modicum of sympathy for his plight. This a clever and pivotal performance ably handled by the talented Fantasia.
Barnden is much more likeable as the brittle, brave and bemused Kat, who is determined to step over the debris of this relationship and forge a new path with her new beau Josh (Matthew Crook).
Crook is excellent as the modern-day fop-like Josh who surprisingly proves to be a match for Ben. Crook’s Josh is a delight proving that appearances can be deceiving and providing a freshness that offsets the jaded diatribes of Fantasia’s Ben.   Alice Darling completes the ensemble as an attractive and duplicitous best friend Thea.
The action is set in Ben and Kat’s apartment, which has been brilliantly put together by Designer Tammy Boden. The lounge room sets just the right tone for a young couple with shared possessions, travels and love.
The world may be ending for Kat and Ben but it is just beginning for Director Joh Harog's Accidental Productions.

Worlds End - Accidental Productions, Bakehouse, Sat May 16

By Barry Lenny, Rip I Up Magazine

Accidental Productions' latest piece, Paul Sellar's Worlds End, is sensitively directed by Joh Hartog.
Primrose Hill sounds pleasant enough but Ben, a failed writer with an acrimonious wit, lives there in a dreary, north west London flat. His beautiful ex-girlfriend, Kat, has had enough and is there to collect her belongings, assisted by her new boyfriend, Josh, and her best friend, Thea. The indolent and domineering Ben, however, was not supposed to be there, and his presence throws a very large spanner into the works.
Mark Fantasia plays the emotionally manipulative Ben, never off stage and seldom silent. This role treads a fine line that could easily present the picture of a man who is totally obnoxious, merely a sad loser or, what is clearly the author's intent, and a point ov view that many men when in a relationship might share, somebody with an inferiority complex, feeling inadequate and unworthy of the unconcitional love that he is offered and, having decided that it cannot last, becoming that self-fulfillinig prophesy, ensuring that the girl of his dreams leaves him lonely and alone.
Jessica Barnden is endearing, tearing at the emotions in the role of Kat, still in love with what she originally saw in Ben, loathing what he has allowed himself to become and, until the very end, hoping for his redempton. Barnden gives a most moving and compassionate interpretation in a superb performance; her best to date, as the emotionally distraught Kat.
The focus of the playwright is on the relationship between Ben and Kat and the characters of Thea and Josh are, therefore, rather two dimensional. To their credit, Alice Darling and Matt Crook do their best with the little that Seallar gives them, creating more than the script might suggest.
This a worthwhile evening of theatre so don't miss it.