“My own material existence I am reasonably assured of. I can imagine my friend at the other end of the line. But between us two there is an airy nowhere, inhabited by voices and nothing else[…]The vocal inhabitants of this strange region have an amazing vanishing quality[…] And sometimes…you hear the confused murmur of a hundred voices. You catch more expressions from private conversations than your nerves can transmit to the central office of your brain; and if you are imaginative, you may undergo, as I have, a feeling as if you had a hundred astral bodies that were guiltily listening at as many keyholes.”
“A Reporters Visit to the Boston Telephone Exchange”
Scientific American 1887, 106
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GOOD FRIENDS FOR A LIFETIME are Maeve Campbell, Minna Jeffery and Lily Levinson. They met on the MA Text and Performance at RADA and Birkbeck. Their first production, Shades of Mediocrity, about friendship, the cult of male genius and Simon & Garfunkel, was performed at Camden People’s Theatre and the Old Red Lion. They were Associate Artists at
Bathway Theatre, University of Greenwich, in 2021.
IAN MACARTNEY is a writer who can be found online at ianmacartney.scot, but for how much longer?
JOE SUMMERS is an artist, musician and instrument maker based in Berlin
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he is co-founder of first terrace records
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his work spans performance, music, writing, radio and carpentry.
JOE VAUGHAN is a writer, publisher and artist based in Bristol, UK.
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he was the producer of Publicate Festival of Independent Publishing
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he works in performance, music, and long form fiction.