The State of Things

A piece built brick by brick. Research developed for this project in 2025. Stemming from the desire to create a script that was specifically designed to be devised. The experiment, what does this group of people want to say right now? An exploration into the themes of isolation and connection, living in the city, and the pursuit of understanding the source of their unhappiness. A beckett-esque satire on The State of Things today. 

Utilizing the structure of Maurice Ravel's Bolero, the forms of Anne Adam's painting "Unraveling Bolero", and the aesthetics of Bower Bird mating rituals, Misster Blue was conceived as a journey of self realization. Accompanied by sound created then distorted from an audio recording of a poem, the audience is invited to take a dharmic journey of repeated loop structures that eventually give way to discover a beauty in the repetition as each moment passes.  

Created by Robert Augustine and Keegan Kyle