Unfinished Business begins with a ritual and a question: who is it really for? The dead, or the living left behind?

Rooted in the Korean ancestral rite of jesa, this devised physical theatre piece explores grief, memory, and the longing to reconnect. Inspired by the director’s personal story of losing her grandmother, it blends movement, chant, sound, and multimedia to build a surreal world where absence takes many forms.

Four performers embody shifting versions of “Sarah,” navigating what it means to grieve across time, tradition, and personal memory. Through moments of awkward tenderness and quiet absurdity, the piece holds space for the words that were never spoken, and the gestures that were never completed.

At its heart, Unfinished Business is not about closure, it’s about learning to live with the echoes. A poetic meditation on loss, ritual, and the peculiar things we do to hold on.