“Can old age do more than just instil fear – namely, inspire us to dream and hope? And because nobody knows who I will be in my old age, I’ll simply accompany myself on stage for as long as I can. Now! The younger, the better. Feeling out old age, coming to terms with it – through personal experience.”

The joyful as well as the sorrowful stories of a life remain etched on the face, collected in the body’s archive. What traces does old age leave behind? Does it move forwards, backwards or sideways along life’s timeline? And at what pace? One moment, when buying a packet of Mon Chéri, the shop assistant asks for my ID; the next, the pharmacist says: “What other medicines are you taking?” What firsts are yet to come, when the very first firsts have already been lived? Does what society attributes to a young body coincide with the experience of a performer who feels the breath of age here and there, yet is still perceived as young? In the solo performance *Stay Until Tomorrow*, Leah Wewoda explores, through the use of a mask – her alter ego in the literal sense – how ageing feels in the body of a young woman. Between transformation and projection, she encounters age as both a physical experience and a social construct. A performative exploration at the intersection of lived experience, where both limitations and possibilities open up, and where age appears less as a certainty and more as an invitation to the imagination.

Performance, concept, text: Leah Wewoda
Direction, external perspective, co-concept: Nicole Erbe
Mask design, stage design, co-concept: Frieda Kirch
Dramaturgical support: Nora Holinski
Set design support: Camille Teresita Daur
Composition and sound effects, loop station: Staeff Günther
Also involved in the production: Magdalena Kolar | Christine Zeides


Funded by the City of Dresden.

A performance featuring mask theatre, object theatre, spoken word and sound collages.
Duration: 35 mins.

Additional performance date: September 13, 2026 | Jünglingshaus Eupen, Belgium