April 2026
A constrained conversation about love, language, and longing
The Love Rashomon is a playful, fragmented exploration of contemporary love inspired by the spirit of Oulipo, the French literary workshop dedicated to writing under constraints. Instead of emphasizing psychological depth or narrative realism, this piece investigates language itself as the landscape of intimacy, frustration, and desire.
Each section of The Love Rashomon is built around a constraint derived from the four letters of LOVE. Four acts. Four couples. Four sonic architectures. In each act, every line of dialogue begins with the same letter:
Act 1 – L
Act 2 – O
Act 3 – V
Act 4 – E
This formal device acts both as a limit and a possibility. It echoes longing, repetition, miscommunication, and the emotional stutter of relationships: how we say the same things repeatedly, differently, or not at all.
April 2026
A constrained conversation about love, language, and longing
The Love Rashomon is a playful, fragmented exploration of contemporary love inspired by the spirit of Oulipo, the French literary workshop dedicated to writing under constraints. Instead of emphasizing psychological depth or narrative realism, this piece investigates language itself as the landscape of intimacy, frustration, and desire.
Each section of The Love Rashomon is built around a constraint derived from the four letters of LOVE. Four acts. Four couples. Four sonic architectures. In each act, every line of dialogue begins with the same letter:
Act 1 – L
Act 2 – O
Act 3 – V
Act 4 – E
This formal device acts both as a limit and a possibility. It echoes longing, repetition, miscommunication, and the emotional stutter of relationships: how we say the same things repeatedly, differently, or not at all.
t.b.a.
A performance about death, the industry of death, the poetry of death, and the representation, or the impossibility of the representation of death in performance and theatre.
As I Lay, Sort of, Dying is not an adaption of William Faulkner’s masterpiece. It borrows the structure of the novel, the technique, the spirit, and the way language is used in the book to tell the Rashomon of death in our current society.
t.b.a.
A performance about death, the industry of death, the poetry of death, and the representation, or the impossibility of the representation of death in performance and theatre.
As I Lay, Sort of, Dying is not an adaption of William Faulkner’s masterpiece. It borrows the structure of the novel, the technique, the spirit, and the way language is used in the book to tell the Rashomon of death in our current society.