Live out 60 years of relationship milestones that evoke joy, pain, mortality, and love in this interactive, participatory experience with a partner from the comfort of your home.
The Homes We Build is an interactive, participatory experience for two people to simulate a 60-year relationship by roleplaying a series of short vignettes that make up a shared life. Over the course of a few hours, you will have confronted your partner’s mortality and what it would mean to live without them. After reflecting on a life lived – will you make different decisions in your own life while there is still time?
For people who are strangers or who are new to their relationship, this experience can help them prepare for the future, spark important conversations, or just experience a sense of wonder and possibility. Past participants have felt nostalgia for a life they never lived and marveled at their own ability to create an entire fictional life together in a short period of time.
Journey into your imagination, confronting fears, receiving love, and opening your mind to possibilities that you have not even imagined.
You will choose between playing yourself or creating a character. The experience is designed to be inclusive of all gender identities and sexual orientations, and uses gender-neutral language throughout.
\”To call The Homes We Build an “experiential theatre project,” as its creators have dubbed it, is a profound reduction of the depth and poignancy of this experience. In Homes, Katie Green, Michael Rau, and Sean Moran have created a towering piece of participatory art that elicits the full spectrum of human emotion.\” – Justin West – CTX Live Theatre (
Tickets are listed as 15 pounds on the website, which is roughly $19 USD.
Only one ticket per pair is required ($19/2 people).
Email: twinalchemy@gmail.com
2020/07/26 - 2020/08/13
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The Homes We Build is an interactive, participatory experience for two people to simulate a 60-year relationship by roleplaying a series of short vignettes that make up a shared life. Over the course of a few hours, you will have confronted your partner’s mortality and what it would mean to live without them. After reflecting on a life lived – will you make different decisions in your own life while there is still time?
For people who are strangers or who are new to their relationship, this experience can help them prepare for the future, spark important conversations, or just experience a sense of wonder and possibility. Past participants have felt nostalgia for a life they never lived and marveled at their own ability to create an entire fictional life together in a short period of time.
Journey into your imagination, confronting fears, receiving love, and opening your mind to possibilities that you have not even imagined.
You will choose between playing yourself or creating a character. The experience is designed to be inclusive of all gender identities and sexual orientations, and uses gender-neutral language throughout.
“To call The Homes We Build an “experiential theatre project,” as its creators have dubbed it, is a profound reduction of the depth and poignancy of this experience. In Homes, Katie Green, Michael Rau, and Sean Moran have created a towering piece of participatory art that elicits the full spectrum of human emotion.” – Justin West – CTX Live Theatre (https://ctxlivetheatre.com/reviews/20190917-review-the-homes-we-build-by-twin-alchemy/)
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Econmic Development Department.
Your Living Room (remote experience)
If your home is wheelchair accessible, then this experience is wheelchair accessible.
If you are deaf or hard of hearing, please email us at twinalchemy@gmail.com, and we will provide you with an accessible version of this experience.