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It explores how bedrooms change form to suit all the needs that have sprung up with the emergence of Covid-19. The use of the bedroom by the single body goes from being a place of rest to an office, gym, medical recovery space and a place of weeping and mourning. The performance piece also explores time and how a change in circumstances affects how time is experienced, our attempt to fill it and our subsequent attempt to survive it. During the performance, a self written and performed song titled &#8220;Don&#8217;t break&#8221; acts as a dark sound scape. 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