This is a stolen play, taken from two authors who never knew each other. I destroyed the play by turning it into a list: a dictée. This idea, “dictée”, is shared but not stolen. I promise. In one of the stolen plays there are three acts about waiting. In this dictée, there are three acts about gone.Those acts are: Gut. Gutted. Guttural.
A performed auto-theory about love and obligation competing in a time when living is becoming unaffordable. This is a psychosomatic inquiry into how the body and language metabolize difficulties into forms of desire and intention. Performed with somatic therapist and artist, Rue Jovanovic, who plays the role of witness, stagehand, and friend – these three functions co-mingle to complicate economies of labor and care. Rigorous but sensual, a series of actions are performed in tandem with anecdotes where the underlying question is: what do we owe each other?
Offta, May 2024
EMMA-KATE GUIMOND 