Marco twists space and time – and the minds of his audience – with his latest piece, “Coverage.”
Appearing onstage with a brown envelope, which he clips to his microphone stand, Marco explains to the audience that coincidence and synchronicity are sometimes more than the things we believe them to be. He invites the audience to join him in an experiement. One person is asked to name a local area code – it could be any one of several. Marco asks this person to take out his cellphone and enter the area code, and then to pass the phone on to another person, who he asks to punch in a single digit, and then pass it on to yet another person, each of whom enters a single digit until a whole phone number has been entered. Marco asks the person then holding the phone to press the “enter” button, and the number is dialed.
Onstage, we can hear a cellphone ringing. Marco goes up to the microphone and takes the envelope down. The ringing is coming from inside. “It really WOULD be an amazing synchronicity if the number you have all chosen together turned out to be MY number, wouldn’t you say? He asks the audience member to take the phone out and verify that it is the phone they have just called. He then takes the phone and answers it, having a comic conversation with the audience member about how he really can’t talk just now, he is in the midst of a performance. Marco hangs up and holds his phone between his hands.
A coincidence? De-Ja-Vu - synchronicity - impossibilty. |
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