The Author

Finding yourself in the audience of a play where the actors are mixed in with, and perform from, the audience should lead to a great feeling of discomfort - indeed I'm sure it would if the audience were less well prepared but the nature of this show was well flagged in advance and the audience were "up for the experience" indeed when the first actor turned to his left and asked what the audience member did they were "with the theatre" so he turned to his right and asked again only to learn he was sat next to one of the reviewers! Ahh well, such is theatre ;-)

With the studio set out as two sets of seats facing each other and with the four actors sprinkled around amongst us the show got underway with gentle introductions to each of the characters backgrounds and the start of their stories. Slowly, with musical interludes, the interconnections become more obvious while the stories get darker until, with a final twist, we're shocked into a silence that even saw us all leaving without applause ... somehow it would have seemed out of place ...

Not enjoyable for the content but none the less a theatrically enjoyable evening, but I just get the niggling feeling that the shock was constructed to be just that, the most shocking possible end rather than emerging organically from the characters or the situation. Ahh well ...