In the Summer of 2023, Christine Jones, creator and Artistic Director of acclaimed theater project Theater For One contacted me to make a standalone show that could be experienced by two audience members (and no performers) rather than the typical single audience member and single performer. I ended up heading down three separate paths which became three separate short shows, along with a looping soundtrack for when the set was on display at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. I wrote, composed, and designed the three shows to be experienced by two or even one audience member at a time, taking advantage of the perspex divider that had been added during the pandemic restrictions to reflect an audience member’s image back when no one else was on the other side. Above is a short video from a rehearsal of one of the shows, titled The Rehearsal, heavily inspired by David Eagleman’s beautiful book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
