Red Phone

2023-11-04 12:00 2023-11-07 15:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Red Phone

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/35393

In-person event

Conceived by Sherry Yoon and designed by Jay Dodge, with technology by Carey Dodge, Red Phone is a conversation that you will not soon forget. Part theatre and part social intervention, Red Phone is an audience-to-audience performance that utilizes the intimacy of a phone call and the technology of a teleprompter. It takes place between two hand-crafted, fully enclosed phone booths outfitted with a vintage red phone and an integrated teleprompter.  Two at a time, audience members engage...

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Atrium O’Brien,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa
November 4 - 7, 2023
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Exhibitions & installations
  • In-person event
  • ≈ 3 hours · No intermission

Conceived by Sherry Yoon and designed by Jay Dodge, with technology by Carey Dodge, Red Phone is a conversation that you will not soon forget. Part theatre and part social intervention, Red Phone is an audience-to-audience performance that utilizes the intimacy of a phone call and the technology of a teleprompter. It takes place between two hand-crafted, fully enclosed phone booths outfitted with a vintage red phone and an integrated teleprompter. 

Two at a time, audience members engage each other in a five-minute conversation in the booth. The act of having the conversation with an unseen partner provides an anonymity that adds to the intimacy of the performance, encouraging participants to be the actor in their own theatrical experience. Red Phone is a one-of-a-kind performance that has been described as the theatrical equivalent to singing in the shower. 

Free of charge, anyone can walk up and into the booths with a friend or family member and spend 5 minutes engaging in some of the most urgent, touching, thought provoking conversations written by some of Canada’s most exciting writers. With a Canadian catalogue of over two dozen scripts and tour stops spanning from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland, Red Phone is a truly national project.

Artists

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    Co-Artistic Director Sherry J Yoon
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    Co-Artistic Director Jay Dodge
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    Technology Director Carey Dodge
  • bio-barker
    Featuring Keith Barker
  • conchileon
    Featuring Conchi León
  • tara-beagan
    Featuring Tara Beagan
  • Featuring Ian Ross