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Uneasy awakening for mixed-up millennial on morning after the night before

Awakening
Underbelly Buttercup

THERE'S something simultaneously funny and ominous about the way we initially meet Cassie in Kirsty Osmon's one-woman show Awakening.

She's lying face down in what we soon realise is a stranger's front garden, a skewed happy birthday party hat on her head. Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday plays cheerfully and, as the show begins, a groggy Cassie is woken by the tinkle of the smartphone still clutched in her hand.

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