A woman sits in a blue capsule and types a letter to a nameless confidante. Her words fly across the screen, and her voice floats in empty space. She sings aloud what she cannot write down and she writes down what she cannot sing, always searching for the right angle. What emerges is a call into the void, an attempt to tune in, and a struggle for the right words. —
A music-theatre piece following a one-way correspondence between a present body and an absent body. The desire to transmit across a vast distance becomes an act of will, an adrenaline-fueled game that blurs the line between the real and the imagined.
This work combines voice, music, and typed text to explore loss, delusion, and the lengths we go to create meaning in the face of absence.
Concept, direction, music composition, text, performance: Sabine Pendry
Sound design, live electronics, co-composition: Arieh Chrem
Eindregie, dramaturgy: Ari Teperberg
Light design, scenography: Erik van de Wijdeven
Assistant direction, outside eye: Amanda Payne
This work is generously supported by Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst