Are you ready to dive in?
Swimming Home is an immersive theatre experience for an audience of one, that takes place in their own bathroom. It was developed through interviews with swimmers from all over the UK, France and Italy and delivered directly into people's homes through a phone App.
A sonic reality matches the participants' actions as they are instructed to move around their bathroom, inviting them to watch their surroundings through a new poetic lens, allowing the bathroom to take on new guises. Sometimes an antechamber of a municipal pool, other times an outdoor pool in the hills of Hollywood, the familiar shifts constantly through sound.
The show mixes together instructions, binaural and underwater recordings, film extracts and interviews with swimmers to transport the audience, in and out of the pool, superimposing imagined realities onto that which they watch.
The show is experienced through the new app Mercurious NET - National Ear Theatre A sound-based interactive theatre App turning the everyday world into a stage.
Once you purchase your ticket you’ll be sent a unique code which you enter into the app giving you access to the event at the time you’ve booked. The show is available in English, French and Italian.
What you need:
Access to a Bath OR a Shower
A charged phone
A good pair of headphones
A swimsuit, swimming goggles and a towel
SWIMMING HOME CREDITS
Directed by Silvia Mercuriali
English Narrating Voices - Silvia Mercuriali, Sam Booth and Simon Kane
Italian Narrating Voices - Silvia Mercuriali, Neri Marcorè, Andrea Fugaro, Fabrizio Matteini
French Narrating Voices - Eliza Clamat, Tristan Bruemmer, Aurelien Pawloff
App Development - Michele Panegrossi
Underwater Recordist - Lewis Gibson Accordion - Gemma Brockis
Swimming Home video project - Susanne Dietz App
Graphic Designer - Peter Arnold
Produced by - Giusi Di Gesaro
With an extract from How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea by Tristan Gooley
Funded by Arts Council England with the support of Battersea Arts Centre, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Aural-Oral Dramaturgies
Italian Language co-produced by perAspera Festival
French Language co-produced by Compagnie Neuf Sense and Tristan Bruemmer
