Time Exiles explores recovery and repair across time and space through a combined community-responsive digital interface and devised process. The play opens on five individuals sit in a semi-circle in a sterile, unidentifiable room.

SUSAN
Susan

LUIS 1
Luis

LUIS 2
Wait are/ you

GWEN
I don’t think/we’re supposed to

LUIS 2
I’m Luis too

LUIS
No way like all my/ cousins

GWEN
No crosstalk

SUSAN, LUIS 1, LUIS 2
...??

GWEN
Didn’t it say on the forms??

You didn’t get—

SUSAN
Susan

GWEN
Gwen

LUIS 2
Um
Luis. Also.

Through short, episodic scenes we discover that 5 strangers, each struggling with different personal burden (chronic pain, grief, addiction, heartbreak) have been ejected from time itself.  They're stranded with only each other, and a new community-building process to set them free/guide them out. Through a series of collaborative exercises that range from the hilarious to harrowing, they must find their way, as individuals and a newly formed collective, back into the flow of shared time/humanity.  The play asks questions such as:  Can a digital interface create community across time and space? Can the co-creation of story guide us toward new ways of knowing and being with each other?  What happens when we surrender our grounding in the known world and embrace the unknown, the timeless, the world that …. may be?

This program was piloted as a digital community-engaged process with 10 artists in spring of 2022, workshopped at Notch's annual retreat in summer 2022 and presented  as part of New Georges' JAMboree at the
Center for Performance Research in May 2024.