Becoming An Anecdote

Becoming An Anecdote

Written & Directed by Mitchell Botting and Performed by Stevie Hancox-Monk

"It's 3.17am when I wake up; you're having a seizure in bed next to me".

A fabricated memoir; an ill-concealed truth.

After you die, Mitchell attempts to capture your entirety in a story spanning three time periods. 2006, when we were in high school, 2015, when you died, and 2024, when he first started writing this… whatever this is.

However, Mitchell’s personal hang-ups, his messy, bordering-on-antagonistic relationship with your friends and family, and his self-flagellating, self-aggrandising, self-sucking introspection dissipate truth into something intangible, turning his endeavours into meaningless drivel.

That is, to everyone except your daughter. She’s now a teenager and never got to know you. All she wants is the truth, but Mitchell is caught between keeping your family happy, telling a good story, and facing his complicity in your death.

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Image description: Three versions of the performer, each of which has their face distorted. From Left to right, first is an energetic blur, second is missing their eyes, and third is torn like paper.