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Don't Call It a Journey
A Tender, Funny Solo Show About What We Keep After Loss
Written and co-created by Julieta Vitullo
Performed and co-created by Iveliz Martel
Select Wednesdays and Saturdays, September 19 – December 5, 2026 at 7:30pm -- full list of performance dates here
The Auditorium at University Heights
5031 University Wy NE, Seattle, WA 98105
Don't Call It a Journey resists the tidy arc that "journey" suggests. Instead, it's built from the objects, the inside jokes, the mistranslations between Spanish and English, and the absurd bureaucracy of illness that actually make up a life — and a loss. Told through the use of analog technologies like a tape recorder, an overhead projector and a rotary phone, plus a house full of tchotchkes, this solo performance moves between a Seattle kitchen, a hospital room, and a dreamscape where crabs, hydras, and robins carry what words can't.
The play grew out of an unexpected special friendship. Vitullo and Martel were already collaborating on Vitullo's play Two Big Black Bags when Vitullo's husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the same time Martel's father and brother were each diagnosed with cancer of their own. The two started trading notes on treatments and checking in on each other's families. Don't Call It a Journey grew out of that friendship as much as out of the loss itself — proof, in Vitullo's words, that grief has to be witnessed to be processed, and that no one heals in a vacuum.
Funny when you don't expect it; heartbreaking in the same breath. In the end, we know that grief doesn't travel in a straight line. Neither does this play.
Ticket Prices: $8.75, $15, $25 & $40
Creative and Production Team:
Director: Julieta Vitullo
Production & Stage Manager: Hayley Berkman
Scenic & Props Designer: Bella Rivera
Costume Designers: Iveliz Martel & Julieta Vitullo
Lighting Designer: Xavier Martin
Sound Designer: Ingrid Bell
Music Composer: Theo Deacon
Projections Designer: Aubree Barber
Choreography & Movement: Sarah Paul Ocampo with Julieta Vitullo & Iveliz Martel
Marketing Director: Amy Gentry
A Tender, Funny Solo Show About What We Keep After Loss
Written and co-created by Julieta Vitullo
Performed and co-created by Iveliz Martel
Select Wednesdays and Saturdays, September 19 – December 5, 2026 at 7:30pm -- full list of performance dates here
The Auditorium at University Heights
5031 University Wy NE, Seattle, WA 98105
Don't Call It a Journey resists the tidy arc that "journey" suggests. Instead, it's built from the objects, the inside jokes, the mistranslations between Spanish and English, and the absurd bureaucracy of illness that actually make up a life — and a loss. Told through the use of analog technologies like a tape recorder, an overhead projector and a rotary phone, plus a house full of tchotchkes, this solo performance moves between a Seattle kitchen, a hospital room, and a dreamscape where crabs, hydras, and robins carry what words can't.
The play grew out of an unexpected special friendship. Vitullo and Martel were already collaborating on Vitullo's play Two Big Black Bags when Vitullo's husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the same time Martel's father and brother were each diagnosed with cancer of their own. The two started trading notes on treatments and checking in on each other's families. Don't Call It a Journey grew out of that friendship as much as out of the loss itself — proof, in Vitullo's words, that grief has to be witnessed to be processed, and that no one heals in a vacuum.
Funny when you don't expect it; heartbreaking in the same breath. In the end, we know that grief doesn't travel in a straight line. Neither does this play.
Ticket Prices: $8.75, $15, $25 & $40
Creative and Production Team:
Director: Julieta Vitullo
Production & Stage Manager: Hayley Berkman
Scenic & Props Designer: Bella Rivera
Costume Designers: Iveliz Martel & Julieta Vitullo
Lighting Designer: Xavier Martin
Sound Designer: Ingrid Bell
Music Composer: Theo Deacon
Projections Designer: Aubree Barber
Choreography & Movement: Sarah Paul Ocampo with Julieta Vitullo & Iveliz Martel
Marketing Director: Amy Gentry
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