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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

35 A Bargain

晉 Jìn |¦|¦¦¦

Psst.
Thirsty?
Let me offer a sip from my private reserve.
Smooth, isn’t it?
Would you like some more?
Only $4.95 for the second sip, and that’s a bargain.
Sure, ask around. See what the others have to offer,
but first, let me show you my full collection.

Rainwater: $39.95 a gallon.
Almost no acid or radioactive tinge.

Desalinated seawater: $24.95 a gallon.
Now with 30% less oil.

Recycled pee: $19.95 a gallon.
Our new process filters toxins but leaves in antidepressants.
We pass the pharmaceutical savings on to you.

Bottled teardrops: my farm of refugees sob around the clock.
Said to have magical properties. $9.95 a pint.

Friend, business has never been better.
Everyone has their moment.
Now mine has come.


Libretto by Bret Fetzer