[As You Wish] Theatre Performance at Copeland Gallery

The play [As You Wish] is a performance linked to [Unanchored City], an exhibition of emerging artists at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham.
About this Event

This performance is being produced as part of the public engagement programme for the exhibition [Unanchored City]. This entire event is taking place as the recipient of the Copeland Gallery’s Emerging Artists Exhibition.

Synopsis

In an unfamiliar exhibition space, an audience encounters a structure with two ladders. Without introduction or explanation, an interview begins between two strangers.

A, the interviewer, reads disconnected fragments from a newspaper like articles, advertisements, and weather forecasts, as though they are interview questions. B, the applicant, tries to interpret these fragments, searching for the "right" answers and the meaning behind them.

As You Wish is a performance about invisible systems, shifting standards, and the anxiety of trying to meet expectations that are never clearly defined. It explores how external pressures become internalised, asking how individuals shape themselves around unseen rules and what happens when those rules can never truly be understood.

Writer/director/producer

Annie Seoyeon Kyung

Performer

Donghyun Lim

Isabella Victorie

Public engagement programme developer

Annie Seoyeon Kyung

Rod Kyungmin Kim

Show Detail

Running time: 20 minute

Location: Copeland Gallery

Thursday 6th 4pm/7pm

Saturday 8th 2pm/4:30pm

(Please book Private View for 6th 7pm show)

About Unanchored City

Unanchored City explores the city as a site of movement, displacement, temporary belonging, and unstable coordinates. The exhibition brings together visual art, performance, and sound-based practices, alongside related theatre performance and sound workshop.

Private View

Thu 6 August 2026, 6–9pm

Public Opening Hours

Thu 6 August, 12–6pm

Fri 7 August, 12–8pm

Sat 8 August, 11am–6pm

Sun 9 August, 11am–6pm

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