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 five strangers, each struggling with different personal burdens (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 guide them out. Through a series of collaborative exercises that range from hilarious to harrowing, they must find their way, as individuals and as a newly formed collective, back into the flow of shared time and humanity. 

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.