⸻⸻❱❰ A performance about technology, tenderness, violence and heartbreak, comprising three monologues given by members of a doomed family transplanted to the bleak terrain of the Nevada desert. The work examines intricate syntax of movement and of spoken language, comparing the patterns and tics of each mode of expression to find points of resonance and tension. Bianca’s perspective is delivered in verse, using the heightened musicality of language to enhance a brimming sense of foreboding; her estranged husband Jake’s crass jokes and technical jargon, also in verse, creates a raw tension between the musicality of the words and the unbeautiful thoughts expressed. Between these two, positioned like bookends to the performance, we see their teenage son Leo. He does not speak and his disability is not named, but the pattern of his repetitive movements is distinctive; a grown man-child cradled in the arms of his nurse, his ‘language’ veers from compulsive, awkward gestures to moments of playfulness and occasional grace. ⸻⸻❱❰