Page 2 - All That Fall

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I am exploring what happens with our imagination and with storytelling in the theatre when humans tell it through non-humans that look like humans. I want to find out what this means in a world of sand, and how the story could be inhabited in this sandy environment. My endeavor involves telling stories with toys vis-a- vis site-specificity of a Beckett play. What does the desert and its materiality bring to the world of All That Fall and what can the audiences see of this play when human-like toys—which have a life themselves—are the ones embodying
the words of a play?
Or maybe the reason why I am doing this is because destiny and the universe were preparing me months ago for the fact that I encountered today: I am isolated in my room due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whom am I going to direct? These toys.
Tommy, a porter (2020).
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Or maybe I am tired—as an immigrant, as a young person that has had to move so many times in a short period of time from different places and rooms—that I need something portable I can carry with me that I would not need to say goodbye to, that could help me share art with others.
Staging in the desert(Abbassi, 2019).