Name: A THOUSAND WAYS: An Encounter
Start: 2024-05-29T02:00:00
End: 2024-06-10T09:30:00
Location: State Library of New South Wales

You’re seated at a table, opposite a stranger, separated by a glass partition. A stack of instruction cards sits between you. This analog, interactive...

Location:

1 Shakespeare Place
2000 NSW
Australia

Venue:

State Library of New South Wales

Price:

From: $39.00

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600 HIGHWAYMEN

Since 2009, New York's 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone) has been making radical live art that explores the poignancy of people coming together. Their work exists at the intersection of theatre, dance, contemporary performance and civic encounter. Named "the standard-bearers of contemporary theatre making" by Le Monde, they also the recipients of an Obie Award, Switzerland's ZKB Prize, two Bessie Award nominations, and In 2016, were named fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Access and Inclusion

Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.

Event Details

You’re seated at a table, opposite a stranger, separated by a glass partition. A stack of instruction cards sits between you. This analog, interactive experience puts you and a stranger at the centre of a private 'performance'.

Generating rave reviews from The New York Times, this intimate performance is a profoundly radical invitation to re-imagine how we see each other, and ourselves

At a time when virtual interactions have fractured and flattened the ways we relate to one another, this encounter explores the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity.

“It is a joy; even if it scares you, go. This is a work of inquisitive humanity and profound gentleness, which over the course of an hour buffs away the armour that lets us proceed through our days brusque, numb and antagonistic.” The New York Times, 2021

Note: This experience is between you and a stranger. If you purchased more than one ticket as part of your order, your party will be split up so that you and the other person on your order will experience the performance in different locations at the State Library of New South Wales. Maximum of three tickets per order. Recommended for ages 16 and up.

Photo credit: Pierre Ware, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Information on Access and Inclusion

This experience is enacted by you and another audience member, seated across from one another the entire performance. You will need to be able to lean and reach from a seated position to a stack of cards approximately one metre in front of you. You will draw cards individually from a stack of 9cm x 12cm notecards and read what is written on them both out loud and to yourself, as directed.The cards are written in English in a 15-point typeface in black on a white background.

Please contact our ticketing support team if you have any questions or would like more information. We will do our best to accommodate any access requests received within three weeks of your session.

Ticket Conditions

*Booking and transaction fees may apply.

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