Audition

by Katie Kitamura

There are always two stories taking place at once, the narrative inside the play and the narrative around it, and the boundary between the two is more porous than you might think, that is both the danger and the excitement of the performance.

Tension grew out of every scene, scenes in which nothing took place and people said very little, and yet the pressure grew and grew so that by the end of the play I realized I had been in a sickening state of unease for some time, and when I emerged from the theater I was simultaneously invigorated and physically exhausted, every nerve in my body still standing on end.

remember being shocked and also disillusioned by the disclosure, it changed the way I saw the performance.

a performance existed in the space between the work and the audience, that it existed, and was made, in that space of interpretation.

He anticipates. So many of my assistants have been reactive. It’s nice to have someone who can anticipate my needs.

A woman who can no longer distinguish between what is real and what is not real.

Instead, I stand on this stage, in the story he has created, in the role he has made.