I’m not entirely sure what happened
between 4pm and 5pm today. I
think I went to see a children’s show.
I know that a performance was going on in front of my eyes
and words were leaking their way into my ears, but after that I get
confused. What exactly
was this show about.
I think there was some kind of relationship
between a man and a woman who became husband and wife after he
turned up in her NSPCC office to give £10,000 to the RSPCA.
Every time the lights went down the scene underwent a
temporal shift and we went either forwards or backwards in time.
This led us into later in the relationship where the couple
were holding a teddy bear ransom, trying to shift a cow that was
stuck in their upstairs landing or weighing their poo to see if it
was the same one. Still
with me? No? Neither were
the children.
I’m 28 years old and I was lost. I can only imagine the 8 year olds were too.
In fact, I don’t have to imagine as I heard the comments as
we left:
“It was funny in bits but not a
lot of bits.”
“I didn’t know what was going
on, it was very confusing.”
Of course words like ‘poo’ are going to
make kids laugh, but that does not a whole show make.
At the end of the show we were informed that this was an
experimental piece. If
so then I’d have to say that the experiment failed.
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