Footnote Number 12

(2019-2022)

Let’s say, just for now, that 2006 was the last unchallenged moment of western power — this white spectre’s final year of being the given, the norm, the voice… for everyone in the world. This work by Theatre Replacement and Spreafico Eckly (Norway) runs with this assumption and uses a 2006 magazine article from the New York Times Magazine to explore how social awareness has shifted over the last 13 years. This monologue for two people, an actor and a sound designer, asks you to observe a creature — a creature whose voice is being repeatedly modulated through digital means — try to reconcile a 13-year-old piece of writing with their conflicted contemporary condition.

Footnote Number 12. Photo by Matt Reznek.

It’s a surgical though meandering task that questions how much a shifting social context should influence the reading of the written word. Conceived, designed and written by James Long and Andrea Spreafico, with performance by Long, direction by Spreafico, sound design and performance by Nancy Tam, lighting design by Itai Erdal and set design an construction by Philipp von Hase. Footnote Number 12 premiered at Rodendal Teater’s BASTARDFESTIVALEN in Trondheim, Norway and toured to the Meteor Festival in Bergen, the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary and the PuSh Festival in Vancouver.