Laughing Through Heartbreak: Dara Beth's Candid Take In 'all My Ex Lovers Are Dead'

Writer and director Dara Beth sparks curiosity with her brutally honest reflection on love, desire, and poor life choices in all my ex lovers are dead.

In a chat with Beth, they revealed that they were just writing short stories and bad poetry as a cathartic way to process the terrible dates she kept going on.

I was just trying to find some meaning in all the nonsense. This story has been a long time coming, written slowly over six years, pieced together from scrap paper prose scribbled at the edges of receipts, woven together with unfinished voice memos saved on and downloaded from multiple phones, and laced with more internal monologues than any single person should allow themselves to indulge in,' Beth shared.

I had no intention of writing a play about all of my ex-lovers. I had no intention of writing anything about all of my ex-lovers. And somehow, after all that, I stumbled upon this one-hour one-hander, which romanticises, poeticises, idealises, dissects, analyses and criticises every poor life choice Ive ever made and called loved.

And Qondiswa James became the perfect conduit to deliver her life story this time around.