Tank

Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London
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This event ended on Saturday 1st of April 2017
Admission
£12.50, £10 concs
Venue Information
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Clapham Junction 0.40 miles

'Cleverly pitched, often comic' The Guardian

'Wow, is all I can say' The Times

'Don't even think in your own language. English, all the time!'

In 1965, American scientist Margaret Lovatt lived with a dolphin called Peter for ten weeks to try and teach him to speak English - part of a NASA-funded research project into human-animal communication. Condemned by the wider scientific community as an elaborate circus trick, Margaret's lessons with Peter remain a controversial episode in the space race between the two Cold War superpowers.

Inspired by the real Dolphin House experiments, Breach's Fringe First Award-winning Tank rips history apart to explore the difficulties of bridging cultural divides, the politics behind the stories we tell, and what happens when you inject a dolphin with LSD.


'Funny, dark, and strangely dreamy' Time Out
'Witty but disturbing...brilliant' The Stage
'Raw, joyous psych-rock freakout' The Scotsman

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