On Friday 23 May 2025, as part of Voice as Landscape at Perdu, Amsterdam, we staged a table read of The Reading: A Play in One Act by Kathleen Collins.

For several weeks, the artist Raoni Muzho Saleh and I drew out the sonic elements in Collins's script, which include chanting, song and prayer. Our interpretation layers the text with a textural innovation, the shifts in Marguerite’s energy/auric field vocalised by Raoni Muzho Saleh.

Reader/Performers
Marguerite Simpson — S*an D. Henry-Smith
Helen Mills — Derica Shields
Psychic’s Assistant + stage directions — senakirfa a.
Marguerite’s Auric Field — Raoni/Muzho Saleh

Commissioned by Alec Mateo & Lorenzo García-Andrade, Voice as Landscape 2025

Photo credit Geo Wyex