Not There Yet
Two women set off together in a car.
As memories begin to shift
and details no longer align,
certainty slowly dissolves.
A question lingers between them: what can be trusted:
the past they share, each other, or the road ahead?
Storytelling
Prologue
When perception can no longer be trusted, is what we see a dream or reality?Part I: Before Departure
The journey begins or is only imagined to begin. Calm on the surface, yet small misalignments quietly appear.Part II: On the Road
Are we moving forward or circling back? Can those who forget still find a way ahead? Perhaps this road has been taken before. If we stop, is that a surrender?Part III: Veering
What has long been held back finally breaks. Dependence and control begin to tremble.Part IV: Staying
Does arrival still matter? They stop confirming the route, stop affirming the memory, stop searching for a single truth. They find each other again.
Characters
A
The woman riding shotgun, caught between fading memory and an unstable reality, seeks a sense of security by searching for traces of having “lived.”B
The woman driving. Careful, rational, and used to caring for others and organizing eveything — holds fast to the idea of “life’s order.” Incapable of accepting the chaos and loss of control that come with fading memory, she drives forward, pretending that everything remains as it was.
Synopsis and Creative Concept
Not There Yet follows two women on a journey with no clear beginning, destination or direction. As their memories begin to disappear and their sense of reality becomes less certain, they must decide whether to remain beside one another, even as the world around them starts to fall apart.
They seem to have already set off, but cannot tell whether the car is really moving forward. They pass similar landscapes, return to conversations that feel strangely familiar, and struggle to work out whether something truly happened or whether they have simply agreed to believe that it did. A keeps questioning and recording, hoping that evidence and B’s acknowledgement will make reality feel stable again. B holds tightly to the steering wheel and insists on moving forward, using action to maintain a sense of order. As memory, language and space become increasingly unreliable, the tension between them grows.
The production is staged inside a malfunctioning pixelated game world.
Combining the structure of a road movie with the feeling of moving through a series of game levels.
A and B are imagined as two maintenance workers who once kept the world running by following clear tasks and instructions.
One day, however, the system stops responding.
The map begins to loop, objects lose their purpose, and the rules they once relied on start to fail.
Through repetition, glitches and shifting stage images, the world gradually breaks apart.
Not There Yet is not a story about finding the right road or arriving at a final answer. It asks what remains when all the things that tell us who we are, where we are and why we began have disappeared. Can two people still witness one another, choose to stay, and continue the journey together? The play suggests that it is only by continuing forward that we can keep redefining our relationship with ourselves, with others and with the world around us.
About Us
We are a team working across cultures. Our name, Reynard, comes from the fox storyteller of medieval fables — a figure who moves between different stories, introducing small shifts that make reality feel slightly less certain. For us, cross-cultural experience feels much the same: moving between understanding and misunderstanding, finding connection within difference, and discovering new possibilities in moments that don’t quite meet.Our collaboration is rooted in trust, curiosity, and a shared willingness to remain in states of uncertainty. Rehearsals feel less like a process and more like a shared journey — testing directions, occasionally getting lost, and letting meaning emerge along the way.
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