Tempus fugit

Client: Worteldagen

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Date: May 2021

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Assignment: Make an on-location performance within a few days. And later transform this into a stage performance

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The project: Tempus Fugit is a performance about the passage of time. The performer walks around in circles while reciting a monologue about how time keeps going around in circles, yet never repeats. Before starting the monologue, they grab something related to one of the 5 elements that shows the passage of time, like a set of matches or a home-made hourglass. As they walk, these time-measuring objects get used up. When this happens, the performer ends the monologue and continues to the next object in the circle. The monologue then starts again.

The performance keeps going until the performer has managed to finish the monologue.