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Theatre

I WILL LAUGH

Performance art exploring verbal amnesty and guaranteed laughter, Sean sits in a chair at a table unable to speak. Whatever is said in the opposite chair is met with laughter.

$10 - $15 (services fees apply)
55 Minutes
Wed 24 - Sat 27 February
Wed 24 Feb, 8:45pm - 9:40pm
Thu 25 Feb, 8:45pm - 9:40pm
Fri 26 Feb, 8:45pm - 9:40pm
Sat 27 Feb, 8:45pm - 9:40pm

Explore an event of verbal amnesty and guaranteed laughter. I sit in a chair unable to speak and listen to whoever sits with me. If anyone does, I listen to everything they say and laugh. No matter what is said, I WILL LAUGH. 


This is an AMNESTY event. Anybody can say anything to me and it is important that they are not prosecuted for anything they say. Come and share a joke you couldn’t normally get away with, come and reveal a secret that has never been greeted with laughter. 
I don’t mind, I WILL LAUGH.

Hot off the heels of I WILL LAUGH’s Tour to Whangarei Fringe in October 2020, Sean Burnett Dugdale-Martin brings his work to the Vault at Q Theatre for a Summer At Q season. 

Sean honed his skills at the University of Auckland under the teachings of Emma Willis, Tom Bishop, Rina Kim, James Wenley and Murray Edmond. He left the institution with a First In Course award for Drama 301 and headed Welly-way where he undertook 16 weeks of clown workshops under international funny-man Fraser Hooper. This piece is inspired by the works of Marina Abramovic, Rachael Longshaw-Park and the people of Aotearoa.

"Beautiful" - audience member

 

"It's like therapy... really theraputic." - participant/audience member

 

"Thank you." - participant

This show is a part of the 2021 Summer at Q Festival. Thanks to the support of the University of Auckland and Q Theatre, Summer at Q has packaged rates that make our venues more accessible and simpler to budget for.

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