CALL IT A DAY

Call It a Day originates from a real encounter between two couples who spent an afternoon together one snowy day in rural Illinois. In 2009, Greg Wohead and his partner found themselves at the kitchen table of an Amish couple and attempted to share a conversation across divergent perspectives: One liberal, one conservative. One progressive, one traditional. One faithless, one faithful.

This day-long durational performance featuring Jessica Hanna, Mireya Lucio, Jesse Saler and Wohead, repeats that day’s remembered conversation on a continuous morphing loop. From a single recollection emerges an almost musical series of repetitions, transformations and ruptures. Wohead uses a mixture of improvised and prepared material—as well as meditations on Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time, and out-of-context scenes from the Peter Weir’s 1985 film Witness—to create a kaleidoscopic examination of the possibility, and impossibility, of understanding one another.

Concept and direction Greg Wohead

Performance by Jessica Hanna, Mireya Lucio, Jesse Saler, Greg Wohead

Music and Sound Design by Ben Babbitt

Design Consultant Shannon Scrofano

Greg Wohead is a writer, performer and live artist originally from Texas. He makes theatre performances, one-to-one pieces and audio works. He draws on a range of references and forms including autobiography, found audio, film, historical reenactment and fan fiction. His work has been seen at theaters and festivals in the UK, US and Europe including Battersea Arts Centre (UK), Bristol Old Vic (UK), Mayfest (UK), Northern Stage (UK), Forest Fringe (UK), Bios (Greece), English Theatre Berlin (DE), Fusebox Festival (USA) and ArtPower (USA). gregwohead.com

Call it a Day is co-commissioned by Theatre in the Mill, South Street, Experimentica and The Yard. The development was supported by a residency program with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, as well as support from by Shoreditch Town Hall, with funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with additional funding by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.