“At 4.48
when sanity visits
for one hour and twelve minutes
I am in my right mind.”

4.48 Psychosis is an uncompromising and demanding text; intense, fragmented, and relentlessly intimate. It dives into the inner landscape of a mind living with depression, where language fractures and thought loops without resolution. Rather than approaching the text psychologically or narratively, I chose to translate it into a physical and sensory experience.

The staging was developed through movement and dance, allowing the body to carry what language cannot fully hold. From this starting point, the performance unfolds in a meditative, almost dreamlike atmosphere, where repetition, slowness, and suspension create space for listening rather than interpretation. The text is treated not as dialogue, but as poetic material spoken, echoed, resisted, and embodied.

The stage design is deliberately minimal and symmetrical. It consists of two cubes and a projection screen (150 × 300 cm), which together form the suggestion of a third cube. This spatial structure functions as a metaphor for the mind: enclosed, repetitive, and inescapable. The cube becomes a mental architecture.

The rehearsal process began with improvised physical compositions, allowing movement to emerge from the text rather than illustrating it. The focus remained on rhythm, breath, and physical tension, treating the language as a score rather than a script.