Spread the Love
a multi-sensory experience for all ages
Made by Estelle Rosenfeld and Philip Parr
What is Love?
This heart-warming walkabout piece explores sensory responses to the question: What is Love? It is the cheese on the toast, the cherry on the cake, the pink and fluffy, and the warm fuzzy feeling inside!
Spread the Love is an interactive walkabout experience led by two performers, exploring sensory responses to the question What is love?
The pair of performers form two sides of a heart, and their costumes hold different surprises to be discovered by participants. Questions such as what does love look or feel like can be answered by peeking inside the headpiece and watching a short animation or touching one of the different tactile objects held in secret pockets on the performer's cloak - and more!
Each sensory experience offers a variety of choices for the participant, as well as an intriguing spectacle to watch from the outside, encouraging us all to really ask, what is love?
With each sensory experience, there are a variety of options and as a result, each participant has a unique interaction with one of the performers. The number of combinations is so vast no two audience members can possibly have the same experience. It is enjoyable and spectacular to watch from a distance as well – observers are intrigued by the interaction they can see, and the audience experience is often carried on by the participants as they share with each other what sound/smell/touch they had.
Spread the Love is a non-verbal show,
entirely accessible and suitable for all ages!
What might one experience when interacting with our love machines?​
Peep through a peephole in the performer’s heart hat and watch a short animation movie about what love is​
Touch the fluff, the fur, the sticky, the warm and the ice-cold through feely pockets concealed in the performer’s cloak
Smell what love is as various scents are sprayed onto a special Spread the Love postcard which you can take away as a keepsake
Listen to the cheesiest and most serious love songs from around the world, by listening through the love machine’s gloves
Taste the sweet and nostalgic love hearts that the machine distributes – and of course read the all important motto
