We live in financial times, Part 1: Blackberry Curve
by
Julia Lee Barclay
Description: A darkly funny theatrical shell game wherein the conventions of character and story collapse and attempt to frantically reassemble just like global capitalism!
First Produced: 2010
Date Added: 8/6/2011
Content Advisory:
Keywords:
Satire/Parody
Politics
Requires/Supports sophisticated multimedia/technical elements
Single Set
The Theatre
Non-traditional/Non-narrative/Experimental/Post-dramatic
Philosophy
Postmodern
Small Cast Size
1 Act, 90 Minutes
1 Female, 2 Males
NOTE: We live in financial times, Part 1: Blackberry Curve is fully protected by copyright law and is subject to royalty. All inquiries concerning production, publication, reprinting or use of this play in any form should be addressed to julia.barclay@gmail.com .
Original Production Information
We live in financial times, Part 1: Blackberry Curve was first presented by in 2010 at , with the following cast and credits:
Excerpt from We live in financial times, Part 1: Blackberry Curve
V: So, boys, you want to send me to human resources is that it?
J: Mike does, not me.
V: And what do you want to do then?
J: Me, I want you to go away back where you came from…back to your Now Network or whatever.
V: Oh, James, you speak as if I’m not here, as if I don’t exist when in fact I do and when I represent a large number of people who find themselves at a loose end…perhaps, well, the vast majority of people, James. Think of me as the people who serve you coffee, clean your floors and your smelly toilets—and James, they do smell, believe me when I tell you this, I should know—and answer your phones and sometimes even marry you and have your children all while being considered to not, you know, really exist. James, can I tell you something…it’s frustrating.
M: I can see how it would be.
J: Shut up, Mike!
M: Well, she has a point.
J: She might have a point if she existed, Mike. She’s not here!
M: Then why are you talking to her James?
About Julia Lee Barclay
Julia Lee Barclay is an award-winning director and writer, born in Providence, RI. She lived in NYC for most of her professional life, and, having lived and worked in London for the past eight years, returned home in October. She recently received a fully-funded practice-as-research PhD from University of Northampton (UK) in December 2009 (Apocryphal Theatre: practicing philosophies) and was the founding Artistic Director of Apocryphal Theatre in London from 2004-2011. Her writing has been published and performed internationally. She has taught workshops in techniques discovered in labs in NYC and London at many universities and venues throughout Europe and the US. In NYC the labs were housed by The Present Company and in London at Camden People's Theatre and The People Show.
She is now focusing on her writing, including two books, one based on her PhD thesis demonstrating in theory and practice that theatre can be an act of philosophy and another based on the lives of her grandmothers 'The Amazing True Imaginary Autobiography of Dick and Jani.' Her research into these books and her ongoing artistic/writing practice looking at the space between identities, roles, words and countries is documented in her blog Somewhere in Transition. She is now Adjunct Assistant Professor at CUNY teach acting (Hunter) and interpersonal communications (Bronx Community College).
Barclay continues to write plays and is always interested in meeting directors and companies that would like to collaborate. As she came to writing from directing, her plays leave a lot of latitude for directorial intervention and she is interested to see what new visions can emerge from other directors and/or collectives working on these texts.
Website: http://www.flyingoutofsequence.org
Blog: http://julialeebarclay.blogspot.com
Contact Info: julia.barclay@gmail.com
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