In Floods

In 2018, I returned twice to a place I hadn’t visited in a long time, attending two almost identical funerals four weeks apart.
The deep strangeness and equally deep familiarity of those situations haunted me, made me laugh, and left me curious.

In Floods grew out of that curiosity. It pulls from the thinking, writing and talking that circled those experiences: around them, through them, and off into tangents. Using the form of a screenplay, flashes of bright light, sudden darkness, impossible actions and unchecked crying, the piece explores control and release, out-of-body states, doubling, queer grief, connection, and emotional overflow.

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In Floods is a live performance in the form of a screenplay reading that unfolds into a choreography of total darkness and sudden light.

The performance borrows the language of film, TV and confessional storytelling to explore memory, invention and the weird logics of personal narrative. What emerges is a dislocated experience of a self: familiar yet disturbed, intimate yet unstable. The work sits at the edge of autobiography and fabrication, building an emotional architecture of grief—for people, places, and versions of oneself.

In Floods is part of a wider body of work exploring how performance can stage unsettled selves—a kind of weirding.