Just as in life, the particularities of individuals, their reactions, and the way in which they follow or resist instructions are counterpoints to a world wherein some things are highly ordered, and others are entirely beyond our control. It is a world where mastery of circumstance is fleeting, and where splendour is always but merely borrowed. In All The Players (2013), the (scripted) language, the interpretation, and the understanding of the mute – but secretly directing – actors in a waiting room is even more ripped apart.

All The Players is a durational performance viewed in parallel with the reading of a script. The script is in future tense. It relates to a scene featuring three characters, which is enacted by five actors - the roles double up, and interchange. The text details their actions, and indicates their thoughts and state of mind. The scene is a power game of sorts between a set of potentially precarious characters.

Once completed the sequence repeats indefinitely. Audience is free to come and go. The script is available for them. Perceptions are intended to shift, as expectations and assupmtions interact with what you read and what you see.

When the live performance is not happening, the setting and script remains on view. The text functions as both a record and a prediction of the presently absent occurrence.