Performance
You'd be Better off Reading the Yellow Pages

Original score written by Ben Guttin.

The piece is a sociological response to America as a culture of consumers. It becomes obvious as to what is important to us and what is not, by using the yellow pages as reading material. From beginning to the end, it unravels as a comprehensive analysis of our surroundings. The action of reading to the audiences mirrors children listening to a story being told. People become critics of their own importance as they realize that the words have no story. The reading is done in a very monotonous tone without any specific feeling or emotion. Meanwhile, the words take over the storyteller who rips out every page after reading the first word in it, slowly the pages create a seemingly compulsive nest that takes over the reader.

The performance takes about 45 minutes to an hour in which the spectator can choose to come back and go as they wish. There is always the surprise of coming back and observing the performance deeper in the piles of ripped crumbled yellow pages.