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How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the moon. The performance is based on the Metonic score: a cycle where the Moon returns to exactly the same place in the night sky and against the same backdrop of the stars every 19 years.

For the performance, we have collected night-time dreams, memories, scientific models, moon rituals and SF fiction, all relating to the moon, spanning from the distant past to the deep-time future. The two performers take the audience on a journey through these different realities merging them with the architectural space of the theatre, so they all take place at the same time here and now.

How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a performance based on the escape room principle: we are looking for an exit but every time we find one, we end up in another reality. The two performers apply dream logic and gameplay to the world, approaching it as an existential virtual game – one that we can navigate, change, shift and play, or attempt to exit its logic. Every exit we take brings us to yet another reality – until even the space here and now becomes yet another fluid fiction.

Concept, script, choreography, space design, video installation by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms 

script collaboration by Billy Mullaney

performed by Billy Mullaney and Julia Willms

animation Julia Willms

sound Robert Pravda

light design Vinny Jones (theater version), Pablo Fontdevila (outdoors version)

management and production TILT  Marieke van Bueren

technical production Paul Beumer (theater version), Pablo Fontdevila (outdoors version)

technique Paul Beumer, Erik Gramberg, Pablo Fontdevila

media and production assistant Kay Churcher

publicity and sales CASC

dramaturgy intern Tery Žeželj

EarthMoon image Julia Willms

photography Thomas Lenden and Andrea Božić

Produced by TILT, residency Veem House for Performance

Made possible by the financial contribution of the Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Tijl Fonds, Kickstart Cultuurfonds, Horizon and DAS Research

Performances:
2023
– Bostheater Terschelling / Oerol Festival (Terschelling, NL)
2022
– Frascati Theater (Amsterdam, NL)
2021
– Frascati Theater (Amsterdam, NL)
– Theater Kikker / Spring Festival (Utrecht, NL)