64 Libretti

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

14 iBottle

大有 Dà Yǒu |¦||||

(Not supposed to be talking to the person on the other end.)

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, K, I’ll hm?
No, nothing what? Hold on a second.

(turning away from iBottle)
I’m coming, just gimme a minute.

Great. Bring it to me.

(back to iBottle).

Hello?
Yeah, you there?
Yeah. Sorry. K. What?

Oh. No. Yeah. Sorry.
I finally found service.
No, just for a minute.
No, just for a minute when…
Hello? Yeah. Hi. Sorry. Still there?

Oh.
I went through a patch where
I didn’t have service.
Two bars. Yeah. Great.
Yeah. No.
I’ll keep checking my
messages just in case.
If it doesn’t go through,
I’ll keep checking for…
They’re coming.
I’ll check ev’ry minute.
I’ll keep checking.

K. Bye. Hm?
K, lemme just…
They’re…
Lemme call you back.
No, I promise.
Lemme call you.
Yeah, I promise.
I promise.

Lemme. K.
Lemme call you, K, I’ll call you in a second.
K, Bye.

Libretto by Caroline Murphy