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BELATED AVOWAL
2023TEAM:
Director: Cat Ashley
One: Cat Ashley
Two: Daniel Sohn
Three: Sophia Nelson
Time: Vyette Tiya
Projection Design: Cat Ashley
Sound Design: Daniel Sohn, Cat Ashley
Graphic Design: Yangqi Deng
Associate Scenic Design: Prithi Khalique
Audio Engineer: Daniel Sohn
Media Engineer: Cat Ashley
Three people, close in relation, sit in a room.
Belated Avowal follows One, Two, and Three as they navigate One’s struggles with keeping time. Elements of live music and projection work alongside a surrealist text to emphasize deviations/distortions in standard timekeeping while centralizing biological timekeeping and relationships. This piece plays with repetition and the passage of time sonically, visually, and gesturally. The cast will be calling sound and media cues on stage.
The first iteration of Belated Avowal debuted at the As220 Black Box Theatre in Providence, RI on November 3, 2023.
DIRECTORS NOTE: I’ve spent stretches of time asking the people, texts, and experiments around me to define time in a way that I can understand, and stand with. I’ve yet to fall into a rapport with mechanical time that feels stable, but I am infatuated with the possibilities that come from centralizing biological timekeeping over standard metrics of timekeeping. Society has come to prioritize man-made constructs, but this biotic neglect leads to disrupting the organic pacing we once relied on. This produces quite a mess. Time is woven into how everything works. It’s led us to conceive life in terms of progress - one thing to the next, tasks to be completed over and over and over and over again. Further marrying us to gestures most efficient to complete these tasks. Time knows no stasis, and tracing the passage of time is our most naturalistic posture. So, in this shared space, I encourage you to settle into how time moves through you. Belated Avowal, a far too late cry. A promise.