Undercover Artist Festival and Brisbane Festival present a double bill of two new plays in development, exploring the lived experiences of their writers.

Pretty F**ing Autistic is a darkly funny, brutally honest play about love, identity, and the fine line between protection and control.

Robert Richards is 25, autistic, and living at home with his over-involved, fiercely feminist mother, Louise. Sharp-tongued, musical-theatre-obsessed, and exhausted by rejection, Robert is convinced romantic love isn’t meant for people like him. When he half-jokes about arranged marriage, Louise panics — and takes terrible advice from her blunt, recently-divorced brother: hire someone to pretend to like him.

Tracks is the companion work and response to the solo performance work The Button Event, created by Todd MacDonald in 2014, which was an exploration and response to the lived experiences of being medicalised as a parent of a child with a genetic disorder (tuberous sclerosis) that caused serious epilepsy.