FOOTNOTE NUMBER 12
by Spreafico Eckly & Theatre Replacement
Date of creation: 2019
Conception and text: James Long and Andrea Spreafico
Direction: Andrea Spreafico
Performance: James Long
Sound Design and Performance: Nancy Tam
Lighting Design: Itai Erdal
Set Design and Construction: Philipp von Hase
Production: Spreafico Eckly and Theatre Replacement
Co-Production: BIT Teatergarasjen, Rosendal Teater , Carte Blanche.
Supported by: Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Council Norway, Bergen Kommune, The British Columbia Arts Council.
This work by Spreafico Eckly and Theatre Replacement uses a 2006 magazine article from the New York Times Magazine about Roger Federer to explore how social awareness has shifted over the last 14 years.
This monolog for two people, an actor and a sound designer, asks you to observe a person - a person whose voice is being repeatedly modulated through digital means - try to reconcile a 14- year-old piece of writing with their conflicted contemporary conditions. It’s a surgical though meandering task that questions how much a sheering social context should influence the reading of the written word.