June 2012
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Frequently Asked Questions, #9
How do you bathe? / I couldn’t survive without a hot shower!
[[MORE]]On the first day we were given our first packet of baby wipes, and by day ten we have been given about 11 packets, though nine of them remain unopened. On the third day two people gave us two buckets, face washers, a loofah and body wash. Half way through someone actually gave us a camping shower, which is a large PVC...
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Frequently Asked Questions, #8
But where do you go to the toilet? / You must go to the toilet?
[[MORE]]Our single concession to the conditions of never leaving the space and of starting with nothing is that we have decided to use a toilet. We don’t like making this concession - it frustrates us - but we didn’t want fascination with us going to the toilet to dominate or come before the piece.
Our compromise was to...
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Frequently Asked Questions, #7
Are you here the whole time? / You can’t step outside this square?! / Do you stay here overnight?
[[MORE]]A key condition of the premise for Deliverance is that we don’t leave the space for ten days. We haven’t left since we started, and won’t leave until the end. Further to this, not only do we not leave, but anything material we are given also cannot leave the space...
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Frequently Asked Questions, #6
Do you sleep OK? / I bet you don’t get much sleep?
[[MORE]]We’re kept awake most nights by the Fringe Club, which is behind the fence, just 30 metres away. It stays open until 3am every night except Mondays, thumping very loud music. Once the music stops we tend to fall asleep within a few minutes while the patrons are still dribbling out of the venue. We wake up each morning once the...
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Frequently Asked Questions, #5
What do you need? / Is there anything you really want? / Can you ask for things?
[[MORE]]One of the conditions of our premise for Deliverance is that we cannot ask for anything. You can ask us what we have, you can ask us if we are hungry, and you are free to come and take a look around the space, but we won’t tell you what we need or want. We don’t do this to be coy, but in order...
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Frequently Asked Questions, #4
How long did it take you to get clothes? / What was the first thing you were given?
[[MORE]]People started presenting us with things straight away. It was quite remarkable: we walked into the space, found a position and stood still, then there was a beat and immediately after a lady walked up to us and handed Penny a Japanese fan she had found in her hand bag. Quite soon after - within a few...
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Frequently Asked Questions, #3
Were you really completely naked? / I could never be naked in front of so many strangers. / Aren’t you the naked people? Why aren’t you still naked?
[[MORE]]We began with nothing, and so when we walked into the space we were completely naked. The nudity was modest - we covered our bits with our hands - and not gratuitous or for its own sake, but in order that we could properly fulfil...
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Frequently Asked Questions, #2
Did you really start with nothing? / So none of this stuff was here when you started?
[[MORE]]There was a rope and some stakes to mark out the 5 x 6m space, but aside from that we had nothing - no food, no clothes, no bedding, no objects, no shelter.
From the beginning, the process of developing Deliverance as a concept has always been characterised by reduction, by taking away. Slowly we...
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Frequently Asked Questions, #1
What’s going on? / What are you doing? / Is this a play?
[[MORE]]“Deliverance” is a 10-day durational live-art piece. On Wednesday March 7th, 2012, we three performers - Penny Harpham, Kat Henry and William McBride - entered this 5 x 6m outdoor space with nothing at all - no clothes, no food, no objects: nothing - with a commitment not to leave its confines until 10 days later, on Saturday March...
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Frequently Asked Questions
Throughout the ten days of Deliverance at the Adelaide Fringe, the performers engaged in many hundreds of separate conversations with the people of Adelaide, answering many thousands of questions.
Unsurprisingly, certain queries kept coming up.
When people asked if we were sick of answering the same thing over and over we said, Yes, of course, and no, not at all! We said that it was part of our...
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Festival Radio interview with Penny Harpham and... →
A meaty interview with Penny and William on Festival Radio two days prior to the commencement of Deliverance at the 2012 Adelaide Fringe.
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“Theatre, comedy and music weren’t the only...
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891 ABC Adelaide’s roving reporter revisits...
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“The performance has an excellent vibe, thanks to the friendly and relaxed...”
– InDaily’s Suzie Keen and Liam Mannix visit with Deliverance at the Adelaide Fringe, 2012.
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891 ABC Adelaide’s roving reporter Spence...
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ABC Radio National’s Nance Haxton profiles...
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“Deliverance” was a highlight and a great hit of the 2012 Adelaide Fringe...”
– Peter Goers, ABC Radio, “Sunday Mail” columnist and Adelaide Festival board member. 