Photo of James Long by Shannon Mendes

Artistic Director James Long found a collection of 7 photo albums and travel journals in alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family’s history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy to the archivist’s Pomeranian, Mandy. A team of collaborators went in search of the origins of these books in the fall of 2007 and ran into, among many things, questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials. What started as a simple trip to the country immediately started to write itself and carried the creators on narrative jags across property, oceans, and beyond.

A co-production with Rumble Productions, 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. Joining Theatre Replacement’s Artistic Directors on this project are Cande Andrade, Owen Belton, Camille Gingras, Craig Hall, Anita Rochon and Jonathan Ryder. 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.

“A powerhouse of wit and hard-learned wisdom as performed by an actor in a rabbit suit.”
-Realtime Australia

“Interpretation is everything - or almost everything, because the ideas of cruelty and compassion remain constant.”
-The Georgia Staight

For booking info please contact Kris Nelson, Touring Producer.

PRODUCTION HISTORY
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 30 - February 2, 2008
Performance Works
VANCOUVER

Free Fall Festival
March 6 - 9, 2008
Theatre Centre
TORONTO

Yukon Arts Centre
January 20 - 23, 2010
Old Firehall
WHITEHORSE

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 28 - 30, 2010
Performance Works
VANCOUVER

Curtain Razors
April 1 & 2, 2010
MacKenzie Art Gallery
REGINA

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
October 13 - 16, 2010
BURNABY

Intrepid Theatre
October 22 & 23, 2010
VICTORIA

Network of Ensemble Theaters
December 3 & 4, 2010
LOS ANGELES