Portraits in Common Time

Abstract

televisions showing film and video loops for each character. Interactive sound, light and furniture complete the different spaces: auditory, cinematic/video and the actual living room. Sitting in an enveloping easy chair or standing awkwardly as if we'd just been invited inside a stranger's home, we experience a few revealing moments, none more important than another, in which one man and two women deliver their modern day soliloquies [1]. characters talk casually over the telephone of their lives and experiences, directed perhaps to each other, perhaps to an audience in the outside world. Fragments of conversation, legs of couches, bits of plants are woven in a circular pattern. The power of these characters resides in the force of memory that allows each to create and then tell her or his own story, just as each has organized the very elements of her or his home by choosing and then arranging pieces of furniture. Portraits in Common Time stars Paula Alexander, Lewis Gannett and Marie Senkfor. sound composition is by Michael McNabb and is run on a NeXT