Do you have enough water? / You’ve got someone to bring you water, right? 

How do you bathe? / I couldn’t survive without a hot shower!

But where do you go to the toilet? / You must go to the toilet?

Are you here the whole time? / You can’t step outside this square?! / Do you stay here overnight?

Do you sleep OK? / I bet you don’t get much sleep?

What do you need? / Is there anything you really want? / Can you ask for things?

How long did it take you to get clothes? / What was the first thing you were given? 

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?

Did you really start with nothing? / So none of this stuff was here when you started?

What’s going on? / What are you doing? / Is this a play?

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 job and that returning to these themes again and again - the task of continuously re-articulating what we were doing - prompted many new thoughts for us and strengthened existing ones, and also helped us to forge an oral record of our project.

One question at a time over the coming weeks we will be posting a written record of that immense exchange. Once posted, you will be able to read all of the Frequently Asked Questions in the same place by going directly to: http://deliverance-art.tumblr.com/tagged/FAQ

Any questions?