Lost Together

Abstract

Lost Together is a thirty-minute performance for one audience participant at a time. It is performed by Shira Leuchter and Michaela Washburn, in collaboration with the audience. Shira and Michaela perform this piece for six- or eight-hour stretches, meeting a new audience member every half hour. Lost Together has been performed in sites as varied as a public atrium, a black-box theatre, a storefront, and online. The performance is a space for communal mourning. It is an assertion that if we want to live in a world that prioritizes care, we need to practice caregiving and the ways in which we are bound to each other.