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Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight Casey Venema

Love is a fearless act of connection that unfurls on an infinite scale.

Atmosphere: The Liminal Performance Space How many performance spaces are there? Who is the performer? Who is the audience? Why are her memories presented in this way?

The experiment

Atmosphere: Whimsy of Memory What/who do you remember? How do you remember it? What do you forget? What do you change? What do you create?

The experiment

Atmosphere: Entanglement How can the space be connected across distance? How do we connect the space to the performers? How do we connect the performers to each other? How do we give the feeling of distinct entities that are intrinsically connected? How do we connect the audience to everything?

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Core shape: Concentricity (infinities of scale) What is the extent of the concentricity? How do we show concentricity in the performers? How can we allow the space and the characters to unfold and contract?

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Core Shape: Orbits What things did Emilie orbit around? Who/what in a relationship has more gravity? Who/what is the satellite and who/what is the axis? What does it look like when multiple people orbit around the same thing?

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Core Shape: Connections and Gaps How do we represent the interior connections physically? What comes from the gaps in memory? What does a missed connection look like? How can actors physically interact with places of connection and places of gaps?

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Central Verb: to Unfurl How does the play/characters unfurl? What opens, what closes? When do things expand, when do they contract?

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Central Verb: to Reach... What are the different ways of reaching ? What do we reach for? How can we facilitate the motion of reaching for distant things?

The experiment

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