One-on-One

Our Review:

9 July 2010

The One-on-One Festival is all about you. In every nook and cranny at the Battersea Arts Centre, performances are happening with only you in mind, intimate experiences for an audience of one. It sounds like a daunting prospect, to be the centre of so much artistic attention, but it’s not at all. It’s a warm environment where you are constantly taken care of and cradled (in some cases literally); there’s nothing to be scared of here.

I get emotionally sucker punched right from the beginning with the incomparable Smile Off Your Face by Ontroerend Goed. Experienced for the most part in complete darkness, your senses are pricked and your emotions teased into extreme reactions ranging from joy to, in my case, tears. You feel soft hands and smell musky cologne which lingers with you for hours, and when you are allowed to see, the beauty and wit of the imagery is blinding. It may sound like hyperbole, but this transcendent piece more than...

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Latest User Review

Jess Brown - 17 July 2010:

I really loved the festival, and even if every performance may not have been as much as it could have been, I really felt that I had been down the rabbit hole for 3 hours in a way that you rarely get in a normal perfomance. Ontroerend Goed's A Game Of You was so clever, and really made the player (you) think about themselves and others. First Person Plural by Step off the Stage was really good fun, though being a stalker was almost as unsettling as being stalked I think. Brilliant - there should be more interactive theatre experiences like this...

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