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BROKEN SCREENS 
2025 | London
live performance, 50min


Broken Screens is a performance work examining political paralysis and the subtle architectures that shape contemporary experience. Four figures move through a landscape of glitches, delays, and fragmented gestures, continually interrupted by systems that feel both mundane and overwhelming.

Drawing on theories of structural violence, mediatised dramaturgy, and failure, the piece frames malfunction as material. Scenes loop, stall, or restart; bodies negotiate with invisible forces; meaning surfaces in moments where action misfires or refuses coherence.

Broken Screens asks what remains possible inside structures that interrupt us, and how attention shifts when movement is no longer smooth, linear, or fully in our control.

Developed as part of MA Advance Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama FORMAT Festival 2025.
CREDITS

Concept, text, direction: Alice De Crais, Maddie Hurley &  Xiaoyu Liu 

Performers: Ali Yuraw (Yuan-Ling Chen), Stephen Ledger, Shelvin Rachael, Poni 

Photography: Yingying Xie

With special thanks to Sam Ward, James Christensen, Pablo Temboury