'Do you guys ever think about dying?’ asks Barbie’s Margot Robbie to the appalled dismay of her fellow playthings. In Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying, an expansion of a 2019 short itself adapted from a 2013 play, the socially awkward Fran (Daisy Ridley) does little else: a secret obsession that swamps her imagination with suicidal ideations involving slithering pythons, car crashes, and ants crawling busily over sallow skin.
As grim as these fantasies may be, they are a lot more exciting than her bleak reality: a life spent shuffling paperwork in a shabby office sited somewhere on the Oregon coast. Until, that is, she meets Robert (Dave Merheje), an affable new colleague who makes it his mission to pop her bubble of isolation.
