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"This Experience will Change your Life"

Yes the question marks in the title are required, because that is the feeling you have while you are leaving this play, (unlike miss mace who was just thinking "Oh My God I just landed on a guy") "what the hell just happened?" .. "why is the baby now humping the priest?" .. "why did the nanny/nurse slap the dude with the phone?" .. "was that staged?" ... however even with all these questions rushing through your mind the overwhelming thought of "THAT WAS FANTASTIC" comes forward. I can't tell you why it was fantastic because it really is a play that would would need to see with your very own eyes to even get the slightest concept of of it was about.

When Miss Mace explained what she had seen she greatly underplayed the 'sex scene' they were a hell of a lot closer than she said. They were touching ... well the girl had her legs on the BABY'S (yes the baby's) shoulders and he was 'fisting' her with the hand that he happened to have the cheese greater on (OUCH!!!!).

The sound that was used was amazing, we still don't know whether the characters were miced in different places on there bodies, or whether different props were miced, or whether microphones were placed in different spots on the floor with very good pick up or whether they just had FANTASTIC cues and the echos of the voices and the different noises that were made were all on cd (pre-recorded).

The music that was used in conjunction to what was happening on stage was excellent. It was very eerie and VERY loud. Blood curdling screams were a popular sound that was played and at one point it was soo loud that Bec covered her ears and I grimaced my face up cause it hurt my poor ears (didn't help that were very close to the speakers lol).

There were so many things that happened that no-one was expecting, like the dolls dropping from the ceiling right in front of where me, bec and holly were sitting and then the apricots (i think) on the poor man. Oh and lets not forget the most scary part !!! Half way through the play all the play ALL the house lights came on and the man that played Death stepped out of the stage and started to stare through the audience and guess where he happened to STOP looking .. AT ME AND BEC. I have never sat so tense in my seat in my whole life. He was staring straight at us and then he began to walk forward towards us, by the way we were in the second row with no-one in front of us basically making us front row!!! But thank god before he made it to touching distance the 'wife' screamed and he whipped around ... I think the faces on mine and becs faces would have been priceless.

Ok well i think this blog is long enough so i'm gonna stop writing here. I hope this gave you some idea of this play, despite the fact that you really need to have seen it to truely understand and gain a full appreciation of absurdist plays. I know that I now have a better appreciation of them and believe that you need to be very confident to be apart of one .. because not many people would want to scrape baked beans on toast over their feet ..

"I Love You, and Everything is Beautiful"
Kiah