ICA Experiences Theatre
this was the eighties a long time back in our lives i was there with my husband and a group of friends to see a girrl«s - rock ? - group perform the ambience was great , there were the girrl«s friends of friends of friens a rumour spread in the room there was some one in the audience - a princess ? after lots of talk and peeping around , there she was - catherine deneuve i mean - ever since we got used to come the local trendy night out . and kept wondering if the princess had arrived
happened: early eighties ?	by: maria redondo
We'd spent months working on a performance. It was a difficult time. Our relationship was fundamentally damaging. Too much intellectualising, too much competition. The gig went well at the ICA, but we won't be asked back. We don't exist anymore. Desire destroyed us.
happened: 1992	by: Br/ian
Rock and Roll Suicide: The exact re-creation of Ziggy Stardust's last show. A few genuinely awesome moments, and a slightly creepy atmosphere, as the perfomers exactly re-created every movement and nuance of the original show.
happened: last year...	by: johnny dean
Listened to Balanescu playing a viola piece by Horatio Radulescu. (in the Musica series) It had tape recordings of amazing high bells swirling round the cieling, plus these gutteral and angelic sounds from the viola. It was one of the best modern concerts I ever heard
happened: 12 years ago	by: Thomas Gardner
crap disco with thingy from pulp
happened: last year	by: steve and charlotte
Swans live! - loudest gig ever - fell in love in park across the mall from ICA after show....wicked.
happened: March,1986.	by: Tony Hule
With Anna, in auditorium, quite dark, Sterlarc talks 'and this installation stopped when the phone rang. We ate muffins later.
happened: winter 1997	by: Kaisa
I'm a major Pulp fan and I especially have a "thing" for Mark Webber, so when I heard about "Little stabs at Happiness", I jumped at the oppurtunity to meet one of my great cultural icons. I was sooooo nervous. At the end I went up to him and shook his hand and told him what a nice time I had. He said "Thank you. Come back next time!" So I did! LSAH is now, according to "Time Out" the 13th trendiest place in London. The Met bar is 83rd.
happened: March 1998	by: Sarah
I came to the LITTLE STABS HAPPINESS one night and feeling quite self conscious about my bright red flares I asked my friend the obvious question - does my bum look big? She just laughed. Anyway after a few drinks I forgot about my small paranoia and I think I was dancing to Blondie's Heart of Glass and noticed that the projection that was playing, which was a live projection of everybody dancing, had changed to an enormous bright red colour, I ignored it and then suddenly looked again and realised that my friend was sitting with the bloke doing the projection and that the large red shape about 15ft x 10ft was in fact my bum!
happened: Unknown	by: Anonymous
one time I came to see a performance by an American artist called Ron Athey. I came with my girlfriend of the time. towards the end of the show one of the performers stuck the biggest double ended dildo/phallus up the arse of of the other one and they both rocked forward and backwards. It made me wince . . . but when it happened my girlfriend raised herself slightly in her seat and shouted out yee ha and whooped with pleasure. scary scary
happened: 96	by: jane T
I first came in 1986 with a girl called Juliet who I'd fancied for about 3 years. We came to see a theatre group called Wissel Theatre company from Belgium. They were fantsatic but afterwards in the bar Juilet got talking with one of the actors as she felt an alliance to him as she also came from Belgium. What became clear however as I drank my pint and she talked was the realisation that she fancied him and I was never going to be in the frame. So a mixture of sexual dissapointment and theatrical inspiration was my first experience here.
happened: 1986	by: adam allen
"layers" at the ICA Theatre in June was the first play for which we bought advance tickets for two performances when we hadn't yet seen it once. And it didn't disappoint : we expected it to be good, and it was. In an era when gay drama was starting to flourish, the play told a clever and very amusing story of confilicting relationships in modern gay life. The Guardian reviewer said "... the only play I have ever seen that opens with three naked men in one bed . . .". Time for a revival, I would say.
happened: June 82	by: Bruce Young
I remember a gay theatre season in the late 70's and early 80's which a was the start of gay theatre UK gay theatre and b Turned the Ica into a virtual gay bar for a season
happened: late 70's early 80's	by: barry jackson
I remember going to an event protesting about censorship, mainly to see Tony Benn performing with test department (which he did, and it was good) Halfway through the evening, Salmon Rushdi got up on stage ,and said he had been made the subjest of a Fatwah for the Satanic verses. He then read out all the bits of the novel that had been condemned. All I can remember about it was that he seemed to go on for hours, and I was thinking "why doesn't he bugger off and let the rest of the show go on ? " Because he went on so long, I had to leave before the end, and I was really angry at him. Little did I know what would happen next . . . .
happened: early 1989	by: Paul Steeples
On a wet January night I came to the ICA to see the Jesus and Mary Chain. Described by the NME as the best band in the world and by the ICA (I seem to remember) as "sonic noise experimenters" The place was packed and hot. Je MC came on to a raptuous welcome, cranked up the distortion and created one big NOISE. No tunes , no melodies, what a shock to the crowd. They left the stage after 15 minutes. Cries of "we want our money back" echoed round the ICA and the ticket desk was besiged by angry rockers !
happened: January 1994	by: Bruce Greenhalgh