Yours Now (2022)
A solo performance about the magic
of grief and the betrayal of fiction.
Yours Now is my final work on the MA Directing of Devised and Object Theatre at DAMU, Prague. It is a performance for an audience of up to 12 people, set in an empty apartment. Through a movement score and a script that mesh personal memories with fragments of novels and poems, the performer tells a story of grieving someone’s death while simultaneously imagining diverging alternative pasts for that person.
Yours Now is a result of thinking about how remembrance plays into performance; thinking about how we perform, seen in parallel with how we remember (or forget). To that end, it traces themes of authenticity, temporality (repetition and return), absence, theatricality and antitheatricality.
Yours Now premiered in Prague 10 on 24 May, 2022.
Devised & performed by Katharina Joy Book. Produced by Lamija Čehajić. Photos by Michael Lozano. Created at DAMU–Faculty of Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Yours Now is my final work on the MA Directing of Devised and Object Theatre at DAMU, Prague. It is a performance for an audience of up to 12 people, set in an empty apartment. Through a movement score and a script that mesh personal memories with fragments of novels and poems, the performer tells a story of grieving someone’s death while simultaneously imagining diverging alternative pasts for that person.
Yours Now is a result of thinking about how remembrance plays into performance; thinking about how we perform, seen in parallel with how we remember (or forget). To that end, it traces themes of authenticity, temporality (repetition and return), absence, theatricality and antitheatricality.
Yours Now premiered in Prague 10 on 24 May, 2022.
Devised & performed by Katharina Joy Book. Produced by Lamija Čehajić. Photos by Michael Lozano. Created at DAMU–Faculty of Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
