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Long Distance Affair is a multi-artist, multi national collaboration and a one of a kind theatrical event: a Skype show for an audience gathered in one place with performances given by actors spread out around the world. We had 6 successful productions since 2011 with more than 75 artists world wide, and presentations in NYC, Mexico, Edinburgh and Buenos Aires, and Bucharest, Romania.
The show itself is planned to take place around the world, but the audience will view it via Skype from a single loccation. Each audience is assigned a computer with a ready made connection to one actor located in a different part of the world. Each performance is one audience member at a time. |
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BUCHAREST, Romania (2014) The International Theater Platform: The Future is Feminine, ArCub Our latest eddition was entirely feminine, and welcomed one more new team of artists: Playwright: Cami De Urioste (Bolivia), Director: Chari Arespacochaga (Canada/Phillipines) and Actor: Rachel Leslie (US) created a new piece dedicated to the Romanian audiences. BUENOS AIRES Bienal Arte Joven Buenos Aires (2013)
After 4 successful productions since 2011 with more than 75 artists world wide, we expanded our family and included over 30 new young spanish fluent artists under 33 for the Buenos Aires edition of Long Distance Affair. The show itself is planned to take place around the world, but the Buenos Aires audience view it via Skype at Konex Cultural. Long Distance Affair: Buenos Aires assembled 18 teams of Actors, Playwrights and Directors from around the world, being our biggest edition yet. EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE (2013) LDA performed in the prestigious festival 2-25 August 2013 at Summerhall. 50 artists from 6 continents joined the project. Visit Artists page to see all the participants and their bios. Huffington Post UK reviewd the show: "Theatre is often comfortable voyeurism - Long Distance Affair rejects this traditional role. You become as much a part of the narrative as the actor, making the experience surprisingly raw and unsettling, as your past life spills into the story, sharing it with a perfect stranger. Margineanu’s production is dangerous, thrilling and a fascinating piece of psychological theatre." NEW YORK CITY, US (2013) When theatre meets technology possibilities become endless. In Long Distance Affair, someone across the globe is reaching out exclusively to you. What will be the result when you and a perfect stranger meet with only a computer screen between you? LONG DISTANCE AFFAIR performed at The Gershwin Hotel between 5-28 February, 2013. 33 artists from 6 continents participated. QUERÉTARO, MEXICO (2012) What level of intimacy can you aspire to when all the information you receive comes through a computer screen? 18 artists from 6 countries decide to take this virtual adventure and bring it to an audience of 48 participants in Querétaro Mexico. Each virtual "affair" is performed for (and with) only one audience member at a time. Long Distance Affair: Querétaro is possible through the partnership with El Centauro Mecánico and at the invitation of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and the 7° Festival Cultural Universitario Tecnología-Exceso de Presente. THE COUNTRIES: Romania, US, Germany, Spain, Australia, Mexico. NEW YORK CITY, US (2011) Long Distance Affair was first presented in November 2011 at "Around the World in 24 hours," an Internationalists Directors Collective Annual Festival of independent global theatre makers. Participation artists included: Ana Margineanu, (US), Doug Howe (US), Jeremy Lydic (US), Andreea Duta (Romania), Alfonso Carcamo (Mexico), Ella Greenhill (England), Stacey Gregg (Ireland), Diane Lefer (US), Sigtryggur Magnasson (Iceland), Lisa Parry (England), Monica Raymond (US), Peca Stefan (Romania), David L. Williams (US), Radu Campean (Romania), Svandis Dora Einarsdottir (Iceland), Fatih Genckal (Turkey), Aimée Horne (Australia), Miguel Loyola (Mexico), Martina Marti (Finland), Lorenzo Montanini (Italy), Oksana Mysina (Russia) and Anastasia Papatheodorou (Greece). |
