Strategies Against Communication: NIGHT is a four episode interactive radio performance series, incorporating original composition, theatre and spoken word. It is also the latest in a twenty-year body of work utilizing chance and semiotics based compositional approaches for working with the written and spoken word. For this incarnation, the theatrical poem NIGHT, written by Patricia Kositzky with GE Schwartz will serve as source material for the experimental text processing.

Conceived and Directed by Patricia Kositzky and Damian Catera.
Written Text by Patricia Kositzky and Gerald Schwartz.
Text Assemblage by Patricia Kositzky.
Produced by Damian Catera.
Sound Composition by Damian Catera.
Text Composition by Damian Catera.

ACTORS/READERS/SINGERS

Cecilia Biagini
John Baird
Damian Catera
Donna Coney Island
Kris Ertl
Christine Goodman
Jack Halpin
Patricia Kositzky
Ardele Lister
Lionel Mootoo
Efrem Oshinsky
Roland Ramos
Chloe Rousseau
Gerald Schwartz

POEMS/WRITTEN WORK

BROADCAST I. "DUSK"

"Night Gossamer Whatnots".....Patricia Kositzky
"The Hour Between Swallows and Bats"......Gerald Schwartz
"Dying into Dusk".....Patricia Kositzky
"Nights Follow Each Other"......Gerald Schwartz
"Small Girl 1".....Patricia Kositzky
"Small Girl 2".....Patricia Kositzky
"Night Thoughts".....Patricia Kositzky
"Prayer 1".....Patricia Kositzky

BROADCAST II. "NIGHT"

"Dreamdragons".....Gerald Schwartz
"In the Bedroom (And the Cat Crawls In...)".....Patricia Kositzky
"Landlord".....Patricia Kositzky
"Feeling Through the Dark"....Gerald Schwartz
"You, Child.".....Patricia Kositzky
"Moon River"....Patricia Kositzky
BROADCAST 2 DREAM SPRINKLE....Gerald Schwartz
"All the Ladies Come 'Round".....Patricia Kositzky

BROADCAST III. "DREAMWEAVING"

"DREAM TAPESTRY".....Patricia Kositzky & Gerald Schwartz
"Insomnia"....Patricia Kositzky
"Insomnia".....Gerald Schwartz

BROADCAST IV. "DAWN"

"Dawn"....Gerald Schwartz