BELATED AVOWAL
2023TEAM:
Director: Catherine Ashley
One: Catherine Ashley
Two: Daniel Sohn
Three: Sophia Nelson
Time: Vyette Tiya
Projection Design: Catherine Ashley
Sound Design: Daniel Sohn, Catherine Ashley
Graphic Design: Yangqi Deng
Associate Scenic Design: Prithi Khalique
Audio Engineer: Daniel Sohn
Media Engineer: Catherine Ashley
The first iteration of Belated Avowal debuted at the As220 Black Box Theatre in Providence, RI on November 3, 2023.
Unfolding as a musically driven one-act, Belated Avowal follows three friends who meet in a community textile arts class as they navigate time, relationship and an growing undercurrent of misalignment.
Live music, projection, and imprecise text surface One’s central tension: a rupture between her lived experience of time and the language to describe it.
The piece explores the fluidity and fragility of memory and the tension between what is said and what is heard.
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.