Set in the liminal space between past and present, hallucination and reality, Year After Year is a surreal play about a young man’s obsession with a memory. Through a fractured journey of self-redemption, the play weaves together the raw threads of the id, ego, and superego, asking what it truly takes to let go. Dialogue-driven scenes are interwoven with expressive movement transitions, which serve as both metaphor and emotional subtext. These moments offer the audience glimpses into the protagonist’s unspoken relationships and hidden desires — powerful emotions that find their outlet through physical expression. The use of multimedia, especially projection, works in tandem with live performance to blur the boundary between memory and reality. Together, these layers offer a fuller emotional and narrative picture, encouraging the audience to piece together the story in an almost dreamlike state. The production is performed in Mandarin, with English captions. In this piece, I explore the fragmentation of the self: each character is a piece of the protagonist’s psyche, embodied through movement and breath. We become the things we experience — the people we encounter — and in doing so, we carry them within us. We are constantly rewriting our memories. The use of projections blurs the boundary between reality and imagination, creating a sense of hallucination and disorientation that mirrors the character’s inner state. My directorial instinct told me that this is not a story that seeks to judge. It’s a story born out of care—care for the human condition. Living in an era of constant acceleration, we become increasingly starved of patience and compassion for others and ourselves. We’re quick to label someone as ‘deservedly’ broken, forgetting that, in someone else’s eyes, we, too, might appear broken in ways they cannot comprehend. Therefore, I approached the piece with tenderness. I wanted to create space for empathy — for the audience to step into the main character’s internal world and perhaps feel the simple urge to hold him close by the end.