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Before Chaos - The Paper Zoo
There I was in London playing Tarra in the ‘Paper Zoo’. The ghost that haunted our theater was rather cheeky.
Imani joins Geoff in London for a unique theater opportunity, only to be set back by the pandemic. But that’s not the only setback. When she emerges from the London Tube at Regent Street, Imani receives a phone message from America and learns that her mother is dying. Imani flies back to Connecticut to see her mother for the last time.
Geoff and I were already in a taxi when I realized I had left my phone on stage. When I got my phone, I had a text message from my dead father.
Geoff's humor often diffused stuff, a bad pun to smooth over budding cruelty. He did not like actors. With ‘lockdown’ and the ever mutating nature live theater, the opening of the Paper Zoo became more unpredictable.
We filmed our online performance of the ‘Paper Zoo’ with cell phones.
“I don't think tigers want to be seen. Lions. They're different. They're proud. Tarra did not like the sun.”
“Hello, Imani. It's Enid. I'd rather not say this on a message, but with the time difference in your work, I'm not sure when I might physically reach you. I'm afraid I have some tough news.”
Imani was in a clothes store, she broke down in the blurring radiance of a Hawaiian Sunset. When she stopped crying she had no memory of buying that cookie Hawaiian outfit.
“My mother is dying. I have to go back to Connecticut.”
Actors:
FX Sounds courtesy of Freesounds.com:
By We Are VocalBefore Chaos - The Paper Zoo
There I was in London playing Tarra in the ‘Paper Zoo’. The ghost that haunted our theater was rather cheeky.
Imani joins Geoff in London for a unique theater opportunity, only to be set back by the pandemic. But that’s not the only setback. When she emerges from the London Tube at Regent Street, Imani receives a phone message from America and learns that her mother is dying. Imani flies back to Connecticut to see her mother for the last time.
Geoff and I were already in a taxi when I realized I had left my phone on stage. When I got my phone, I had a text message from my dead father.
Geoff's humor often diffused stuff, a bad pun to smooth over budding cruelty. He did not like actors. With ‘lockdown’ and the ever mutating nature live theater, the opening of the Paper Zoo became more unpredictable.
We filmed our online performance of the ‘Paper Zoo’ with cell phones.
“I don't think tigers want to be seen. Lions. They're different. They're proud. Tarra did not like the sun.”
“Hello, Imani. It's Enid. I'd rather not say this on a message, but with the time difference in your work, I'm not sure when I might physically reach you. I'm afraid I have some tough news.”
Imani was in a clothes store, she broke down in the blurring radiance of a Hawaiian Sunset. When she stopped crying she had no memory of buying that cookie Hawaiian outfit.
“My mother is dying. I have to go back to Connecticut.”
Actors:
FX Sounds courtesy of Freesounds.com: