Requiem: A Celebration of Life and Achievement, was a devised immersive theatrical experience that was part memorial service and part graduation. Set in the Dance Studio of the Samuel Beckett Center at Trinity College Dublin, and stemming from the question “How much of ourselves do we sacrifice in order to gain academic achievement?”, the experience featured us, the “hosts”, welcoming and interacting with the audience participants as we grieved our past selves, our lives before entering academia. We gave emotional "eulogies" before the gathered participants and shared personal anecdotes of the "departed" in intimate moments with some audience members. Towards the end of the performance, after the fourth eulogy had been given, the increasingly somber atmosphere was broken with a toast that reminded us that even though we had sacrificed a lot to be where we are, we had made it here, to the present moment, which prompted a celebratory ritualized dance followed by a “graduation” ceremony.
