Lines

Lines is a site-responsive performance exploring division, power, and the quiet loneliness that emerges when shared spaces become contested. The work begins with two brothers attempting to divide the property they have inherited: a home filled with childhood memory, laughter, and collective belonging. As they negotiate what belongs to whom, their relationship slowly shifts from emotional to transactional. Developed through a hybrid process of writing, devising, and physical exploration, the piece unfolds as an allegory for the many ways we draw lines in our lives. Within the intimate setting of a home, the brothers begin measuring, marking, and negotiating territory.

Everyday acts : dividing food, keeping accounts, ensuring fairness, echo larger systems of partition, ownership, and control. The audience is invited into this process of division, witnessing how ordinary gestures of fairness and calculation gradually harden into borders. Through this intimate conflict, the work reflects on a wider global condition. At a time when the world appears to be moving toward increasing exclusivity rather than inclusivity, new lines are constantly being draws, between neighbours, communities, nations, and ideologies. These boundaries are often reinforced and manipulated by larger systems of power, sometimes with devastating consequences. As the brothers struggle to resolve their dispute, they encounter the ghostly logic of cartography itself. Figures inspired by colonial map■makers, such as Cyril Radcliffe, emerge as unsettling reminders of how borders are often drawn by distant authorities with little understanding of the lives they affect. Through the small and the personal, Lines seeks to reflect the fractures of the larger world.