Push Yourself

A ten-minute play.

OVERVIEW:

I’ve had a few dodgy personal trainers, one of whom told me I was “built for comfort and not for speed”. I wanted to honour the profession of personal training with this play.

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STORY:

Daniel hates fat people but Daniel loves Sarah. The only way to make her realise is to push her to the limit.

PERFORMANCES:

•    Sydney Short & Sweet Festival, Sydney, Jan 2009
Director:     Deborah Bradshaw,
Cast:        Emma Butschek, Craig Purdon

REVIEWS:

Alex Broun
Short & Sweet Festival Director
“Coming in third in the People’s Choice, just another two votes back, was Kate Toon’s very funny (and a little disturbing) Push Yourself, well directed by Deborah Peebles, in her directorial debut, with Craig Purdon as a creepy personal trainer and Emma Butschek as the object of his affections.”
Felicity Burke
www.aussietheatre.com
”In Push Yourself, writer Kate Toon takes the somewhat over-visited theme of the relationship between a personal trainer and client. Emma Butschek gave a pleasing naturalistic performance as the girl who just wants to get fit and has an obsessive and increasingly inappropriate trainer (Craig Burdon). There are lots of positional and verbal innuendo jokes directed in a suitably schizophrenic manner by Deborah Peebles.”
Augusta Supple
www.australianstage.com.au
”Push Yourself, written by Kate Toon and directed by Deborah Peebles, explores the relationship between personal trainer Daniel (Craig Purdon) and his client Sarah (Emma Butschek). With a bright and easy-to-watch performance from Butschek, this play bubbles along nicely interspersed with suitably suggestive stretches.”

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