ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I analyze how the Dutch performance Dying Together/Futures (2020), by theater company Building Conversation, can be considered an example of a middle ground where new assemblages are explored, sketching a vision of a future of relational entanglements in the Anthropocene (Braidotti). I perform the analysis by practicing creative concepting (Van der Tuin and Verhoeff). Interweaving the concepts theatricality, dramaturgy, and pandemic as a framework for analysis, I trace how Dying Together/Futures presents tools to navigate the pandemic in the epoch of the Anthropocene. I argue that, by playing with the virus, the performance highlights the complex fabric of positions and roles that became visible during the COVID-19 pandemic and designs possible scenarios for living and dying together in the aftermath.
