'How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a philosophical, poetic and comic performance about the power and limits of our imagination.' Theaterkrant, Critic's Pick
How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a new performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the moon. The peformance is based on the Metonic score: a cycle where the Moon returns to exactly the same place in the night sky and against the same backdrop of the stars every 19 years. Especially for the occasion of the premiere at SPRING in Autumn, we have prepared the exact same night sky in Utrecht as it was in 1603, the year witch-hunt ended in the Netherlands and the year 2059, the year of the fist human settlement on the moon. The half moon phase is the best time reverse circumstances.
For the performance, we have collected night-time dreams, memories, scientific models, moon rituals and SF fiction, all relating to the moon, spanning from the distant past to the deep-time future. The two performers take the audience on a journey through these different realities merging them with the architectural space of the theatre, so they all take place at the same time here and now.
How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a performance based on the escape room principle: we are looking for an exit but every time we find one, we end up in another reality. The two performers apply dream logic and gameplay to the world, approaching it as an existential virtual game – one that we can navigate, change, shift and play, or attempt to exit its logic. Every exit we take brings us to yet another reality – until even the space here and now becomes yet another fluid fiction.
Review at Theaterkrant, Critic's Pick
'With How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), Andrea Božić and Julia Willms manage to contemplate on the concept of reality in a fascinating, enstranging and meditative way. In doing so, they showcase the power of theater and imagination, ending with a pun: how can you escape the theatre?' Theaterkrant
Credits:
Concept, script, choreography, space design, video-light installation: Andrea Božić and Julia Willms
Script in collaboration with: Billy Mullaney
Performers: Billy Mullaney and Julia Willms
Animation: Julia Willms
Sound: Robert Pravda
Light design theatre version: Vinny Jones
Light design outdoors version: Pablo Fontdevila
Management: Marieke van Bueren
Production: Eli Steffen, Michael Scerbo
Technique: Paul Beumer, Erik Gramberg and Pablo Fontdevila
Media and production assistant: Kay Churcher
Publicity and sales: CASC
EarthMoon image: Julia Willms
Dramaturgy intern: Tery Žeželj
Photo's: Thomas Lenden and Andrea Božić
Trailer: Julia Willms
Tour:
28 October 2021, 19.00, SPRING in Autumn, Theater Kikker, Utrecht, premiere
29 October 2021, 19.00, SPRING in Autumn, Theater Kikker, Utrecht
29 October 2021, 21.30, SPRING in Autumn, Theater Kikker, Utrecht
3 December 2021, 20.30, Frascati, Amsterdam
4 December 2021, 20.30, Frascati, Amsterdam
5 December 2021, 15.00, Frascati, Amsterdam
8 June 2023, 21.00 (try out), Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
9 June 2023, 21.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
10 June 2023, 15.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
10 June 2023, 21.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
11 June 2023, 15.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
11 June 2023, 21.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
12 June 2023, 21.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
14 June 2023, 21.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
15 June 2023, 15.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
15 June 2023, 21.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
16 June 2023, 15.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
16 June 2023, 21.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
17 June 2023, 15.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
17 June 2023, 21.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling
18 June 2023, 15.00, Oerol Festival, Bostheater, Terschelling