Interior of a cafe. There are people seated at a table facing each other engaged in conversation with the remains of their lunch on the table.

No Such Thing

Quarantine

Information

Tickets: Free (tickets available W/C 12 Jan)


Running time: 30 minutes (approx.)


This event takes place at various times and locations, to be announced soon.

When was the last time you had a conversation with a stranger?

The offer is simple: we buy you lunch in exchange for a short conversation. Starting with a menu of questions, we talk about what’s happening in the world, in our lives and stuff that’s playing on our minds. There’s always a ‘Today’s Special’ from that day’s news.

The conversations are one-to-one, lasting half an hour (ish).

No Such Thing began in 2012 in a curry café in Manchester City Centre. Since then, Quarantine have had around 500 conversations over 500 lunches with 500 strangers.

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The exterior of Battersea Arts Centre from across the street. A large Victorian building with arched windows and a weather vane on its roof.

Biographies

Quarantine is an award-winning ensemble of artists and producers making cross-disciplinary work that explores what it means to live right now. Founded in Manchester in 1998, they create and tour projects around the world that are both intimate and immediate in their relationships with people, and global in their reference and scope.

Quarantine is known internationally for intellectually rigorous, socially progressive and inventive art that questions who gets seen, whose stories are told and who stands in for whom. Questions about representation lie at the heart of their work.

Credits

A Public Address is a BAC and Quarantine co-production, supported by Arts Council England.

Part of Welcome to Wandsworth, London Borough of Culture. London Borough of Culture is a Mayor of London initiative.

No Such Thing Concept & Creation Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea 

No Such Thing Producer Kevin Jamieson 

Access

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event will take place at cafés nearby to Battersea Arts Centre. Futher information on these locations will be announced soon.

Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit.

EVENT INFORMATION

This event will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to, and if you need to leave at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.

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