Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut

(2008-2010)

In 2007 James Long found a collection of 7 photo albums and travel journals in an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection — complete with detailed captions and letters — documents a family’s history from 1950 to 1987 and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy to the archivist’s Pomeranian, Mandy. Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut uses fact, fiction, video, interviews, a rabbit suit and anything else required to make sense of the found materials and the worlds interrupted along the way.

Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut

A co-production with Rumble Theatre, Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut was written and performed by James Long, directed by Craig Hall, with video design by Cande Andrade, sound design by Owen Belton, dramaturgy by Camille Gingras and Anita Rochon, lighting design by Jonathan Ryder and movement design by Maiko Yamamoto. Clark and I combines live and recorded video projection, photos from multiple sources, interviews from people encountered on the journey, and heightened physicality to create a performance that explores the dilemmas inherent in the appreciation and appropriation of other people’s memories. The show premiered at the PuSh Festival in 2008 and toured to the Theatre Centre in Toronto, Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Curtain Razors in Regina, the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, Intrepid Theatre in Victoria and the Network of Ensemble Theatres in Los Angeles.