“Continuance” is a dystopian dramatic cycle, spanning three generations. A man and a girl, a mother and a son, a son and a girl—all desperate for something like eternity amid a decaying world, gasping for hope while struggling to breathe, and forever stuck in the patterns of the past. A cyclical exploration of civil war, legacy, and the memory of trauma, “Continuance” is a direct response to a reality besieged by ever more catastrophic crises, an increasingly destabilized political landscape, and a deteriorating environment. The repetition of text across three generations highlights our culture’s refusal to break with the patterns of the past to ensure a future for humanity. This iteration of “Continuance” exists as a performative audio/video experience, created in 2020 during the pandemic using the performance text since we couldn’t safely create a live performance during this time.