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DARE FESTIVAL 5
25 - 27 FEBRUARY 2021
Tylor and Vincent's Pussy and Money at DARE Festival 4, 2019. Photo by Ali Wright
ABOUT
WE DEMAND A BETTER FUTURE
DARE Festival is a three-day extravaganza of inventive, unexpected, challenging and ground-breaking new interactive theatre for audiences who want to play! Usually hosted in Shoreditch Town Hall’s Ditch, this year’s DARE will take place in an entirely virtual theatre, ensuring you can experience all the fun from the safety of your own home.
Curated by critically-acclaimed playable theatre company Upstart Theatre, DARE brings together performance, installations and workshops. It is an opportunity to see new work in its earliest stages and offers audiences the chance to meet and chat to artists in our virtual theatre bar after the show.
This year we have commissioned six new pieces of interactive theatre that respond to the theme ‘we demand a better future’. The wide-ranging interpretations of that theme promise to be bold and delicious covering everything from the inequality of land ownership in England to Hong Kong street food.
This Egg & Camilla Clarke present a gentle digital interactive experience that takes the audience on the complicated and tangled journey of unpicking how we got here and where we are going, in their show & then everything just-; The Learning Lottery by Katurah Morrish puts audiences in the black lace-ups of UK teenagers and gives them one simple goal: do well at school; In the Think Tank by Fable Workshop and Gavin Maxwell the children uprise and get to work solving the world's biggest problems, starting with adults; Black female-led physical theatre company, Speaks of Rivers presents The Fourteenth Stop, an adventure through a city transformed by young Taaliyah's vibrant imagination. Featuring puppetry, poetry and physical theatre this show is an uplifting interactive experience for all the family; Design duo Abby and Alice in partnership with environmental collective Solidaritree present The Isthmus Project, a tabletop game that examines the inequality of land ownership in England and invites its players to dismantle it and finally Hong Kongese trio ShumGhostJohn is bringing their brand new game-show Cart Noodle Show to your home. Get ready to sit on the edge of your seat, fight for the highest score, and have a taste of delicious Hong Kong street food.
DARE FESTIVAL 5
THU 25 - SAT 27 FEBRUARY
CART NOODLE SHOW
SHUMGHOSTJOHN
THU 8PM / FRI 7:15PM / SAT 1PM
THE FOURTEENTH STOP
SPEAKS OF RIVERS
THU 5PM / FRI 5PM / SAT 3PM
THE THINK TANK
FABLE WORKSHOP & GAVIN MAXWELL
THU / FRI / SAT 6:30PM
& then everything just-
THISEGG & CAMILLA CLARKE
Q&A SAT 4PM
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