A simple silence

It seems like such an easy request: a simple silence. A stillness without the weight of work or love or death. A moment in between. But we have learned there is an almost impossible gap between this ambition and the reality of living, that our silence is never simple. In the flickering light, we hold our breaths, anticipating the storm. Something must be lost before it can be found. A Simple Silence is the final chapter in Riverbed Theatre’s award-winning Just For You Trilogy that premiered in Venice in 2022 with All That Remains and continued in 2023 with Over the Rainbow. This new 360VR experience continues the series’ exploration of our connectedness to the world around us, imbuing the environment with an animistic quality while also blurring the boundary between seeing and being seen. The audience is not a witness to the experience; they are the experience. A Simple Silence confronts us with the uneasiness of our inevitable truths, that every beginning implies an ending, that we are shadows passing through the darkness.

Earlier this year, I started waking up at sunrise and going for a daily hike in the mountains encircling eastern Taipei. There was something remarkably soothing about heading out into the relative stillness of the normally bustling streets, that by stepping outside of the relentless pace of living, I encountered the wonder of life. A cloud passes. The wind blows. The world is feeding. A Simple Silence is a vehicle for letting go, an opportunity to disarm oneself and embrace the beauty of the unknown.

PRODUCTION: Riverbed Theatre – Suling Yeh
3F., No. 9, Ln. 5, Linsen N. Rd.
100, Taipei
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PRESS OFFICE: Su-Ling Yeh
Riverbed Theatre
3F., No. 9, Ln. 5, Linsen N. Rd.
100, Taipei
Tel. 886 223219790
suling.riverbed@gmail.com