Synopsis:

Alice's hoarding disorder is worsening, her home is increasingly dilapidated, and her financial difficulties are escalating. With increasing desperation, Alice's daughter, Agatha, fails to persuade her mother to move into a care home. Amongst Alice's chaos, Agatha discovers a potentially valuable piece of art. Selling it to Caroline could solve their problems but just might send Caroline's own life into a tailspin. How can they all prove its provenance?

Provenance explores the value we give to things and people, and the connection between art, beauty, relationships, and commerce. Should a beautiful piece of art's worth depend on where it comes from? What happens if the balance in our relationships with people and with things tilts too far in one direction?

About Autopoetics
Autopoetics make theatre using rich visual imagery, evocative text and inventive physicality. They explore collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to ensemble theatre-making, to tell stories about what it is to be alive in the world today.

Autopoetics is an international, Singapore-based theatre collective, founded by Chelsea Crothers, Laura Hayes and Maiya Murphy. They are brought together by a shared interest in the meaning-making process between performer and spectator, the discovery of new devising techniques, and the visual and physical space between text and performance. They all teach here in Singapore based on their physical theatre expertise (at SOTA, NAFA and NUS respectively).

Provenance was created using an original approach to playwriting created by Laura Hayes– a (play)box. A (play)box is a stimulus for devising theatre written not only in words, but also in a curated dramaturgy of stimuli – objects, images, sounds and experiences. Making theatre using a (play)box guides creation towards physically and visually led ways of working, demonstrated in Provenance.