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Sat 08 Aug 2010I think we're alone now
Two shows at the Kilkenny Arts Festival represent the tender and the darker side of one-to-one theatre: but which is which?
SEVEN YEARS ago, the Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed decided to break the rules. If traditional theatre audiences were immobile, the audience for their new show would be invited to sit in wheelchairs and then be moved around the space. Instead of viewing a performance, they would be blindfolded, asked instead to rely on every other sense. Rather than applauding, their hands would be bound. And, crucially, instead of attending as a group of spectators, they would experience this show alone.
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