PuSh Festival 2020: Spreafico Eckly and Theatre Replacement (Norway / Canada) - Footnote Number 12
A deep dive into the politics of language and the dynamics of privilege, Footnote Number 12 turns the act of reading into riveting theatre
Date/Time: Feb 7 2020, 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm
Vancouver, Performance Works | Event calendar1218 Cartwright St
P: 604.449.6000
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Cost: $39.00
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“Wonderful… Thought-provoking… I’m going to tell everyone I know to go and see it.” - Mooney on Theatre
You could call it a subversive piece of literary criticism; it takes a celebrated essay by the late David Foster Wallace and breaks it down in a series of seriocomic monologues, each of them playfully modulated by sound artist Nancy Tam.
Our speaker is James Long, but we do not always hear his voice; as he paraphrases, quotes and critiques “Roger Federer as Religious Experience,” we get a series of sonic curveballs that highlight gender, race and perspective in funny and provocative ways. Don’t expect to be a passive audience member: there will be reading from distributed texts, a group song and more in the name of showmanship but also empowerment. Deconstruction has rarely been this mischievous, this innovative, this fun.
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