How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) at Frascati – AMSTERDAM

Critic's Choice: 'With How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), Andrea Božić and Julia Willms manage to contemplate on the concept of reality in a fascinating, alienating and meditative way. In doing so, they showcase the power of theater and imagination, ending with a pun: how can you escape the theatre?' Theaterkrant

We are very happy to present How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), a new performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the moon at Frascati in Amsterdam. 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.

Especially for the performances at Frascati, we have prepared the exact same night sky in Amsterdam as it was in 1604, the year witch-hunt ended in the Netherlands and the year 2060, the year of the fist human settlement on the moon.

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.

Read the full review here (in Dutch)