Live

LIVE brings together three scripts and one score written by Janice Kerbel over the last ten years. While each is a text for a performative work, this collection treats notation as form, and highlights how language lies at the heart of Kerbel's practice. Performative works assembled in this book are 'Nick Silver Can't Sleep', a radio play for insomniacs in the voices of six nocturnal plants; 'Kill the Workers!', a play for stage lights inspired by dramatic narrative and executed solely with theatrical lighting; 'Doug', a live vocal performance of nine songs for six voices; and 'Ballgame', a recorded radio announcement of a baseball game conceived by mathematical averages.