What do our histories look like when torn up and stitched back together? Broken Stories is a collection of monologues, each written by an individual collaborator, that were then interwoven to create a dialogue on the very mechanisms of language, storytelling, and meaning itself. Sydney, as lead deviser, selected segments, cut-offs, repetitions, and the like to craft a narrative that is fragmented but weighty in its fragmentation, acknowledging the tension between wholeness and otherness that we inhabit. Because at its core Broken Stories is a collaborative musing on the constant re-construction of how we tell our own and others’ stories, grappling with the togetherness that is central to our individuality as human beings in a deeply lonely world.