Libraries and Landscape or What is it that I have Lost? is a performance structured around the im/possibility of finding a lost loved person through the reading of their inherited library. Gould invites the audience to sort through boxes of old photos, old letters, fragments of type-written text, clippings from newspapers, binoculars, scissors and books, as she takes on the task of ‘reading oneself backwards’. The performance is presented as a monologue, but at points the story is taken up by the recorded voice of absent characters and the sounds of other times and other places.
This performance has been presented at various times and places. 17th May 2006 it was presented as a forty minute one-person performance work as part of the week festival of new writing for Write Side of the Brain at Barons Court Theatre, London.
Forthcoming re-worked version of this performance is planned at the theatre at ICIA in Bath on April 19th 2007. To book a ticket click here.