Lynn Lu. 36 Questions that Lead to Love, 2021. Photo credit: Jemima Yong.
In Good Company's ever-popular summer festival of fresh and exciting performance returns to Derby Theatre for a 9th year from Thursday 15 - Saturday 17 July 2021.
Join us for 3 days of in-person and online performances and events.
Departure Lounge 2021 includes a bumper line-up of fresh, cutting edge and contemporary shows, participatory performances, and a panel discussion with industry experts, immersive and experiential theatrical experiences.
Lynn Lu presents 36 Questions that Lead to Love, a one-to-one participatory performance via Zoom.
Physical distancing in pandemic times has translated into sustained social isolation for many of us. Operating within this new normal – which inhibits our evolutionarily hard-wired need to connect with others – 36 Questions that Lead to Love is an invitation to explore intimacy and generate interpersonal closeness across a virtual divide through a scored series of shared confidences.
36 Questions that Lead to Love refers to a 20-year long study by the psychologist Arthur Aron and his team, that explores whether intimacy between two strangers can be accelerated by having them ask each other a specific series of personal questions. One participant at a time will join the artist for 50 minutes on Zoom, and work through the 36 questions together. The experience will culminate with handwriting a letter and reverse-pickpocketing it.
Full festival line up here.