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Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas
Sound/Light Installation now showing through November 21, 2008

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle WA 98105 USA
Phone 1 (206) 634-0919
Email jsp @ jackstraw.org

Creative Team

Sound Byron Au Yong
Light Randy Moss
Video Jean-Stephane

Audio Engineers Tom Stiles, CJ Lazenby

Librettists Eugenie Chan, Bret Fetzer, Aaron Jafferis, Archana Kumar, Carola Luther, Caroline Murphy, Vivian Umino, Edisa Weeks

Singers Josie Davis, Emily Greenleaf, Jeremiah Oliver, David Stutz

Percussionists Stuart McLeod, Dean Moore, Benjamin Morrow, James Whetzel

Project Manager Pike Pin
Costume Designer Emily Carlsen
Videographer Eric Rockey
Research Erica Howard
Logo Wing Fong

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is thankful for support from Creative Capital's Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; 4Culture's King County Site-Specific Performance Network; Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts; and Jack Straw Productions

37 Puckered Skin

家人 Jiā Rén ||¦|¦|

Mama’s got a swimming pool but she don’t let Daddy swim.
Mama’s got a swimming pool but she don’t let Daddy swim.
Till Daddy puts his swim suit on she ain’t gonna let Daddy in.

Mama’s got a diving board but she don’t let Daddy dive.
Mama’s got a diving board but she don’t let Daddy dive.
Ain’t done a single belly flop while Mama, she’s done four or five.

Mama’s got a sauna but she ain’t gonna let Daddy sweat.
Mama’s got a sauna but she ain’t gonna let Daddy sweat.
He can play in the sun but that’s all the heat he’s gonna get.

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Puckered skin.
Missing teeth.
Shrieking kids.
Here eyes are talking have you heard?
She wants to taste your salty tongue.

Inner tubes.
Water wings.
Kings and queens.
These summer days feel incomplete
without your fingers underneath.

Mama wants to hear her Daddy sing.
Mama wants to hear her Daddy sing.

Libretto by Bret Fetzer