DIPTYCH: THE HISTORICAL PRESENT is a solo evening composed of two acts reflecting on womanhood. The evening-length work was envisioned as two contrasting parts, existing alongside and in conversation with one another. Each part is a commentary on the construction of gender and femininity in which Olivia Court Mesa locates herself in the evolution of feminism.
ACT I: Whenever I’m alone is the voyage of a woman into the raw, mechanical, burning and urgent, hidden and fragile layers of herself - her body serving as an inseparable companion for a dialogue. 
ACT II: A traveling bag, a body and me is a magic act about the construction of womanhood. It is an embodiment of history, mythology, expectation, and the physical possibility of women. 
DIPTYCH examines both the weight of the flesh and of societal expectation; the value that is carried by gender and the body that must be carried.