Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System

by Kate Ireland

Kate Ireland is bringing her debut poet collection, Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System, to life on stage. Bringing together sound design, immersive visuals, physical theatre and spoken word, this is a performance that explores being a sensitive soul in an age of optimisation and acceleration.

In a culture inundated with prescriptive language, quick fixes and self-surveillance, how do we find a space for tenderness amongst the noise? Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System is a lovingly disordered field guide for surviving a world that keeps turning up the brightness.

From violent mornings to dreich late nights, Kate sifts through bedrooms, public transport, supermarkets, her Gran’s house, the surveillance-era optimism of mindfulness apps, and the wild terrain of her own mind- finding space for the personal in the political and build a space for connection in a disconnected era.

Kate Ireland at Roundhouse, Camden

Roundhouse Rising

Sat 06 Feb 27

7:30pm

£10.75

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Doors: 7pm

Event Starts: 7.30pm

Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes (no interval)

Please note: Stage times are subject to change and published where available.

Fees are 7.5%.

Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break

14+, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Content Warning: Depicts mental ill health, suicide, sexual assault, flashing lights and loud noises.

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