Program Note

WAR UPON OURS (2026) negotiates mortality as something belonging to all of us which is threatened. Five characters: the Archivist, the Celebrant, the Fatalist, the Escapee, and the Dissenter explore being seen as finite through their significant responses to Death. Attempts to resist, ignore, or escape the inevitability of dying unravel with time. Auld Lang Syne juxtaposes the rational of these characters as they wrestle with life and purpose. Who gives up? Who stays optimistic? Who ignores certainty?

Performers reveal their true nature by achieving, corrupting, facing, escaping, or rejecting the meaning of life through Death. Birth, embodiment, response, and occupation is faced with the reality of this news. We are here and we will leave. What happens in between is yours.