Speed Dating in Our Piece

At the start of our performance, we will be speed dating with members of the audience. The room will be split in half by a curtain and one half will be boys with the females of the audience and the other half will be girls with the males of the audience. The audience will sit at the tables with the performers and they will have cards with questions on them to help kickstart the process, but the actors can't reply. They can attempt to, but we're keeping the thing about not being able to say how you feel so the performers are muted, and not selectively.

This uses Artaud's value of pushing the actor audience relationship because in speed dating, interation is forced upon oneself and it's sufficiently awkward for both the actor and the audience member, more so for the audience member because they're not getting any replies. As it is still early days in our piece, the audience member won't understand why they're not getting any replies but later on they might understand why.