A monstrous, sentient blob of trash rises from the Pacific Ocean to wreak havoc on Brisbane. Grabs your imagination by the collar, doesn’t it?

That apocalyptic vision is the starting point for WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!, an ambitious black comedy from Queensland’s Dead Puppet Society premiering at La Boite Theatre on 30 July.

Part eco-cautionary, part monster flick, and part millennial anxiety dream, this production brings together inflatable kaiju, robot puppets, cardboard skyscrapers and a playlist of iconic Brisbane songs to create an end-of-the-world story unlike any other. Well, unlike any other except Godzilla, maybe.

La Boite Theatre and Dead Puppet Society’s WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

“It started way back in 2019, before the bushfires and the pandemic,” Director David Morton recalls. “Greta [Thunberg] was a thing. We put out a call for a new writer to pitch a story that tackled ecological or social justice themes. And we got this extraordinary idea from a young writer, Maddie Nixon.”

Nixon’s pitch? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – the largest marine accumulation of plastic on the planet, roughly the size of Queensland – gains sentience and launches an all-out, Godzilla-style attack on Brisbane. “We...