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Meet Alice: theatre that speaks to you
Other | Monday 16th January 2012 | Osh
Operating from a narrowboat of the same name that drifts between various moorings on the London canal network, Alice are a theatre company with a difference. Under the artistic direction of Marene Miller, their debut production, Meet Alice, severs the divide between punter and performer as individual audience members are plunged one at a time into the set.
Meet Alice is a private exorcism in which your emotional responses are manipulated first-hand by actors who address you directly, not experienced vicariously through distant onstage characters. Throughout this tactile and interactive experience you are challenged to subvert, to indulge in your own fantasy as the line separating fiction and reality is expertly blurred. In the space of ten short minutes your defences are disconcertingly disabled, your nagging insecurities are probed and laid bare, and then you are cleansed and emotionally reconstructed with what feels like the purest tenderness and benevolence.
The floating venue is currently located on a section of Regent's Canal that runs through Victoria Park in Bethnal Green. A fire in a bucket acts as a navigation beacon and staves off hypothermia as Alice’s guests toast complimentary marshmallows and await their immersion into her domain. This is unsettling, life-affirming and deeply human theatre, guaranteed to help you knead out the knots in that quarter-life crisis. If it’s catharsis you seek, look no further.
For more information visit: alice@meetalice.co.uk
