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TINDERBOX: GREG JOSSELYN, @MOBIUS

GREG JOSSELYN PHOTO©Juliana Johnson

THIS WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN,
by GREG JOSSELYN

Do you have any regrets about your life? Do you, have any regrets about your life? Doyouhaveanyregretsaboutyourlife? One man in a space, in one place, under one light, reciting a text, repeatedly inciting his audience to 'pretend.' THIS WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN, a performance inspired by a Great Grandmother's archives, is easily belied by its apparent simplicity. But the closer you look - or, the harder you listen, and the more vibrantly you imagine - the more you begin to see in this ordinary woman's life story, as her seemingly mundane diary entries transform into reflections on memory and inheritance, reminding listeners of their own struggles to constitute histories and identities from invisible fragments. THIS WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN explores the impossibility of performing the archive, along with the human race's disembodied obsession with the written word.


Fri Feb 15, 2013

Friday, February 15 at 8PM

$10 Donation, $5 Students, and Friends of Mobius

@ Mobius
55 Norfolk Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Greg Josselyn has directed, produced, and/or appeared in fifty works for both theater and performance. He aims to make affective and genuine encounters that create imaginative spaces for people to feel propelled by their own good ideas. Heavily invested in the confusing boundaries between aesthetics and everyday life, his work typically explores the personal and sometimes political forces that keep people from speaking, through a variety of mediums, including: live art, poetry, and socially engaged art. Greg has studied theater and performance at Hampshire College and Queen Mary, University of London. His show called "Room 44," is forthcoming as a flash fiction story in the Raleigh Review.