Live Art Speed Date Returns!
In collaboration with the Camden People’s Theatre, we present a theatre full of the finest artists, theatre makers and performers ready to lay their dates on you. We have commissioned them to create for you a private one-on-one, four minute date.
Upon arrival you are given a Date card (like an old fashioned Dance Card), which you will fill with 'dates'.
When not engaged in an official date, you may explore the CPT and indulge in all manner of Auto Dates, fringe dates, and other games.
LASD is a vibrant fairground of private encounters between artist and audience. In a large room artists occupy booths, tables, and dark corners where they perform their four-minute-long ‘date’ to their guest. The audience are given cards for the date they want, and when not ‘dating’ engage in auto-dates and other playful interactions. The whole event is highly charged and opens discussions between audience members as to what they have experienced, examines the phenomenon of the encounter, and tests the boundaries of performance. By socialising the event we turn up the heat on what is ‘private’. That ‘privacy’ can be thought of as ownership of the potential experience, and so the dates are commodified. The ensuing market drives anticipation and increases the perceived value of each encounter. As the reports come back from the dates the private encounter enjoys a second, public life as a myth of itself.
Originally produced for last year's St Valentine's day, LASD has taken on a life of it's own with Dates at the Edinburgh Festival and the Dublin Fringe. After this one LASD travels to Tokyo, then the Bristol Old Vic for Mayfest (with Forest Fringe) and in the summer you can catch it at BAC for their festival of intimate performance.
For more information please see the Stoke Newington International Airport website: http://stkinternational.co.uk/
For tickets please see www.cptheatre.co.uk
