THEATER OFTEN INVOLVES AN AUDIENCE COMING TO A SPACE TO PASSIVELY WATCH.
JOY AND PANG PUTS THE SPECTATOR AT THE CENTER OF ITS PRODUCTIONS.
Joy and Pang produces online, live and hybrid experiences that center connection and relationships, whether that relationship is between lovers, friends, community or the self.
Experimental and immersive, Joy and Pang blurs the lines between life, audience, actor, and performer. We seek to move beyond the performance, event or space by involving community, joining worlds, and opening hearts. Productions with heart and noise.
LIFE LIVED FULLY. ALL THE JOY. ALL THE PANG.
"Joy and Pang got me in touch with myself, so I could connect with other people."
Set Your Love Life on Fire: How to Get More of What You Want from Online Dating
A cross between the lovers journey and an online course, learn to tell the story of YOU through your online dating profile, so you can start finding better matches.
Learn to create peace and sanity while messaging, so you can stop having bad conversations and start having fun.
Love Story: A Meal in Five Courses
Love Story: A Meal In Five Courses uses the five senses to conjure both a meal and a love story. How do the senses inspire memory? Is touch possible through a computer screen? How do you taste the memory of love?
Notable in its accessibility, Love Story uses the universal themes of food and love to create space for self-contemplation and joy. Live and interactive, the two head chefs of Il Tuo Tavolo (Your Place) greet audience members over zoom. Through gentle conversation, the chefs weave a love story, based on the audience members' experiences and choices. The answers from this choose-your-own adventure end up on the audience members’ plates, in sensual courses of taste, touch, sight, sound and smell.
PLAY
A brand-new piece by Joy and Pang Productions, to inspire playfulness in our everyday lives, created by a cohort of national and international playmakers and performance artists.
Make a tax-deductible donation to support the creation of PLAY.
Hi, we're Anastasia and Rachel, the founders of Joy and Pang Productions.
We're two performance artists and ruckus-makers who change the world by providing fun, sensuous, interactive performance experiences that actively ask audiences to self-investigate and ultimately to heal.
With the closing of cities due to the pandemic, they saw and heard stories of isolation, loneliness and longing for communal experiences. As theatre-makers, they saw an opportunity to connect people, even through the quarantine. Their COVID-safe online performance, Love Story: A Meal In Five Courses, invited the audience to collaboratively tell a multi-sensory love story through a fine dining experience.
After their first test audience, they knew they had something special. After the month-long run sold out in 14 days, and attracted audiences from all over the world, they knew they had to expand, leading to Set Your Love Life on Fire: How to Get More of What You Want from Online Dating.
They have more than 40 years of combined experience creating theatre and performances and teaching students to use theatre as a powerful storytelling tool to connect audiences and communities.