re-read live performance was a part of second hand dialogue exhibition. The exhibition aimed to collect human interactions through dialogues by recording short phone conversations of visitors, who volunteered to be recorded. I was invited to a part of this project to interpret transcribed dialogues and created a staged-reading from those dialogues.

With two performers and six transcribed dialogues in front of a live audience, this was a great experience to interpret and read these real conversations out loud. It was standing room only for this event with performers scattered throughout the gallery. Because of the crowd, there was even a moment where I could not see Suphasawatt, another performer during the show.

The conversations flew across the crowd back and forth like we were making a phone call across the room. The last performance was the most memorable one. It was a conversation between a daughter and her now-deceased father. She called someone she knew and asked that person to be her dad. This simple dialogue moved me deeply and was a memorable goodbye for us all.

Directed and performed by Suphasawatt Purnaveja and Ladapha Sophonkunkit

second hand dialogue exhibition by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

2019

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