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

10 Ripples of Sorrow

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Ripples of sorrow
from stones of despair.
Boy without shadow
hear my pray’r.

Ripples of courage
from stones of restraint.
I search the pond
and refuse to faint.

Ripples of terror
from stones gripped with fear.
I lose my faith
as you disappear.

Every stone sinks in the same pool of hope
where courage falls under fear
and though sorrow enters to stab at us all
there’s nothing to cherish once the pond is clear.

Ripples of sorrow
from stones of despair.
Wake up tomorrow
always aware.


Libretto by Caroline Murphy