11am, Thursday 5th until Sunday 15th May 2011 @ The Floating Harbour
An intimate conversation between two people, stretched across the city, situated up to 500m apart. For two hours a day for the duration of Mayfest, Search Party will create a live semaphore soap opera for Bristol. Using giant flags instead of spoken words, this rolling and improvised narrative will communicate playfully across the city’s landscape, exposing stories that are hidden and encoded, that simmer beneath the surface.
Search Party decipher their intimate exchange of secrets, half-truths, veiled threats and warnings; documenting the conversation as it unveils and revealing what is too often left unsaid. As passers by you will be called upon to help translate the messages and draft responses as you dip in and out of this unique soap opera; unravelling a narrative as you go about your daily lives. Find them. They need you.
Bristol-based company Search Party have toured internationally with their inspired site-specific performance Search Party vs. We’re delighted to be co-comissioning this new work with Theatre Bristol.
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