Co-presented with Williams College Off-Center Series
at Hops & Vines, 16 Water St., Williamstown, MA
Seating for these free performances is limited and reservations are required.
(2 drink minimum per person)
About the Blind Date Project:
The apprehension of going on a blind date is suddenly compounded when a group of people — you the audience — gather to witness an improvised meeting between two complete strangers in a karaoke bar.
Guided only by text messages and phone calls and interspersed with random songs, each performance promises to be as unpredictable as it is dangerous. The daringly devised encounters are devoid of scripts or rehearsals and no two shows are ever the same. Things may turn out to be humiliating, tender or totally hot.
Desperate and looking for love, Anna (AFI award-winner Bojana Novakovic, star of Fox series RAKE and SHAMELESS) is a woman at a karaoke bar waiting for a date she matched with online. Each night, her date is a different guest performer (male or female) whose identity is unknown to her until the moment of performance. There is no script. All dialogue is created on the spot by the performers, and directions are sent via text messages and phone calls by the director. The ending is undefined, so what happens is entirely up in the air.
Guests are always a surprise and have included Jason Alexander, Laverne Cox, Pablo Schreiber, Reggie Watts, Chris Abbott, Troian Bellisario, John Cho, Jeremy Sisto, and many more.