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Tue, 06 Jun
|Warehouse Studio Theatre
Studio Nights: FEATS Double Bill
For this edition of Studio Nights, the ATC is proud to present a FEATS double bill, featuring two one-act plays that the ATC has taken to the Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies, or FEATS.
Time & Location
06 Jun 2023, 20:00 – 22:30
Warehouse Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem 69A, 1030 Schaerbeek, Belgium
About the event
Accelerated Intimacy, by Chiara Venturini, won the 2018 FEATS award for best original script. It is being directed by Carrie Ellwanger, who also brought the play to FEATS that year. It tells the story of two complete strangers who are stuck in a disabled New York City subway car. To pass the time and relieve the awkwardness, they decide to take a quiz they find in a discarded newspaper: a series of questions designed to “accelerate intimacy” between strangers. It's a premise both find mildly amusing - okay, maybe a little intriguing - as good a remedy for boredom as anything else, right? Certainly nothing more than that...
Baby Boom, by emerging American playwright Lia Romeo, directed by Jeremy Zeegers, is this year's ATC entry at FEATS, taking place in Bad Homburg, Germany 26-29 May. The play is a delightfully quirky, darkly comic, and ultimately tragic exploration of the normalization of guns in American culture. It peeks beneath the facade…