Dirty Pop-Up Dating

…with Dr Gail Iles

Thursday 27th May 2010
Crucible Studio, Sheffield

This was originally intended to be the first in an ongoing series. In the end we only did this one. We’d collaborated with Gail on the making of Mission To Mars (she invited us to train with her for 3 days at the European Astronaut Centre 🤩). Gail was always massively generous and brilliant and we think this was an extraordinary, genuinely unique-and-never-to-be-repeated experience for the people who joined us.

The bumpf…

We meet some extraordinary people in the course of our work and we’d like to introduce you to some of them. For Sheffield Crucible’s Forge Festival of new work, we invited Dr Gail Iles to join us on stage…

Gail is a particle phycisist who works at the European Space Agency where she is the only female British astronaut instructor in the world. Gail is also a member of the Space Station Programme Committee which will have a say in the future of the International Space Station and other space platforms such as a Moonbase.

Clare, J and Chris spent a day with Gail talking and finding out more about her life and work. At the end of the day Gail was on stage starring in a new show that we made up together as we went along. It was dirty, busked, scratched, low-fi, funny, insightful, inspiring.