How do we get to know a person? How do we fall in love?
These are the central questions to the Binaural Dinner Date, a one-to-one guided audio performance mixed with live action. Audience members are paired up as if on a blind date, and guided through a series of activities to fall in love with one another; or are they? The journey itself isn’t particularly groundbreaking, but the technical prowess of the design and execution of the performance more than make up for this. Each individual has headphones, tables are on different cycles to interact with one another and with the Waiter, and these overlap so that at times all tables are silently watching a tertiary story with the waiter’s love.
In many ways, the success of this performance is just as reliant on your partner as it is on the production — which means it can fall down quickly. That said it is a technical marvel and worth experiencing if you have the chance.