Textile Theatre

15/08/2021

📦 In a world where a life worth living is only available online, X has his access and posting rights revoked. He spends his days in exile perusing his past online glories, longing for a return to his virtual world. In the meantime an emotional pandemic is wreaking havoc on civilisation. The internet eventually pays X a visit, but will it be forgiving?

Social Distancing is an absurdist satire on our exhausting struggle to be virtually flawless.

SOCIAL DISTANCING at the Camden People's Theatre Camden Fringe

Written and Performed by Tommy Papaioannou
Direction and Set Design: Sara Svati
Voice: Larisa Muñoz Mejía
Lighting Design: Nikita De Martin

✂️ 17-19 AUGUST, 9PM

For Tickets follow the link in bio

06/08/2021

📦 “Joining a cancellation jamboree can be very beneficial for one’s brand, but the perks depend heavily on when one jumps on the bandwagon.” 📱
SOCIAL DISTANCING at Camden People's Theatre as part of the 2021 Camden Fringe
✂️ 17-19 AUGUST, 9PM
For tickets follow the link.

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20/06/2021

Another REVIEW for SOCIAL DISTANCING. Thank you Kerry Williams and for coming to our show and your kind words!

16/06/2021

Meet our Lighting Designer. Nikita is a dancer, painter and performance maker based in London. Currently studying MA Performance Making at Goldsmiths University of London (UK) and a graduate of Contemporary Dance at the National Dance Academy in Rome (Italy).
Her work is inspired by a social reflection on the body as product of technological regulation and how movement combined with light and materials can mystify the bi-dimensional effect of technology on human sensorial perception.
Coming from a visual arts background she strives for creating imaginary spaces through movement, lighting and sound as main tools for her research.
In 2019, Vera Stasi offered her a choreographic residency at the Supercinema Tuscania for which she founded the idea of Non Kommunal Territory. This space is meant for collaboration between non-mainstream arts and people, based on the concept of using discarded objects and ideas as fuel for new collaborative work.
As a swimming instructor, gardener, lighting designer, horse rider, Nikita is always excited for learning new things.

15/06/2021

Meet The Voice. Larisa Munoz Mejia is an actress trained at East 15 Acting School.

She recently co-wrote and performed in ‘Caperucita’ at the Actor’s Centre On Demand Platform.

Recorded the Radio Play ‘Eco’ with Proyecto Escénico Kemé in Honduras.

And co-created the play ‘Mater’ with the theatre collective WeOnes.

12/06/2021

09/06/2021

The first review has arrived! Thank you Ella and for your wonderful words.

https://www.voicemag.uk/review/9212/brighton-fringe-review-social-distancing

We are returning to Brighton for our second batch of dates at the . Catch us at the Sweet Old Steine, from June 14-16. Pier Werks, 21-22 Old Steine, BN1 1EL.
Sara Svati Tommy Papaioannou

02/06/2021

Meet our Director. Sara Svati is an Italian-born artist and theatre-maker.
Her theatre practice and research lie among visual and performance art, having a strong background in theatre, sculpture and architecture, and professional training in ballet and Butoh. After graduating at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence she moved to London to undertake an MA in Scenography at the Royal School of Speech and Drama. Recently she has attended a summer school program lead by Claudia Castellucci, from Societas Raffaello Sanzio in Cesena, IT.
In 2017 she founded Orientale Sarda, a theatre and performance project in which she is developing her research and practice combining directing and scenography.
Present Tense, a work inspired by the book Momo, has debuted in June 2017 at IT Independent Festival in Milan, performed at Lumén Festival of Performing Arts in Ravenna in July and at PiùcheDanza Festival in Milan in October 2017; at The Yard Theatre in London and premiered at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival in September 2018.

Over the last years, she has worked as freelance set and costume designer in various productions, ranging from site-specific performance, dance, proscenium arch and physical theatre in the United Kingdom, Italy and Greece. Her work has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Battersea Art Centre, Young Vic Tunnels, Greenwich Theatre and The Royal Albert Hall in London; at Prague Quadrennial 2015 (CZ) and Teatro Palladium and Teatro Due in Rome.

31/05/2021

Meet our writer and performer Tommy Papaioannou. Tommy trained as an actor at .
‘Social Distancing’ was written during lockdown and it is his first play to be staged.
Tommy’s pre-pandemic acting work includes: ‘ZOMBOID!’ at the Wimbledon Theatre, ‘Among Angels’ at the Courtyard Theatre, ’Bunnies and Wolves’ at the Jack Studio Theatre and ‘No Show’ at the Arcola Theatre as part of their Creative/Disruption Festival.

29/05/2021

“Lakes, seas, rivers and oceans were contaminated with reflective reducing substances and polishing silver became an act of rebellion.”
Premiering a new play by Tommy Papaioannou at the this coming summer.

29/05/2021

“One should always be ready in case a selfie is required.”
A show about the incessant need to be virtually flawless.
Written and Performed by
TICKETS 🎫 https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/social-distancing-153085/
Artwork Savvas Zinonos