Relevant to previous post...

[myz_lilith]

So on Tuesday night, I went to an immersive theatre experience set in a near-future semi-totalitarian Britain that was in the process of eradicating all unnecessary emotional excesses from the population. The performance took place in an asylum of girls, each personifying an emotional extreme, running round shrieking, giggling, crying, screaming, shouting and generally being insane at us (and then dancing to Prince and falling down, only to start all over again.) It was actually very good... but definitely proof that the Universe has a fucked up sense of timing and an evil sense of humour...

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[green-badger.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was at that too. On Wednesday though. We somehow managed to go round it in the wrong order and miss a lot of the action, I think, which kind of ruined it. xxx

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure there was a 'right' order - it kind of built up in waves!

[green-badger.livejournal.com]

There was definitely a wrong order, as we spent a lot of time in empty rooms and being directed by staff into bits we'd already seen. :( xxx

[miss_squiddy]

You might have managed to see it all - we did the dance number three times! :D

[green-badger.livejournal.com]

So it was intentional that most of the time there was nothing going on? What was the point of the empty room with the code that we were sent into twice?

We saw the dance number twice. :)

[miss_squiddy]

The one with all the bits cut out of books? That was the room of the giggling blonde girl. She did a speech in there about 'remember the time I changed my Facebook status...' but she also did that in the main hall so you may have seen it elsewhere.

Things happened in all the rooms, but only at certain times during the rotation - you should have met/seen each of the girls in white in their own space and a scene in the Director's Office?

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

I think they re-used set pieces quite a lot - the maze girl gave us her spooky I'm-in-your-head speech when it was just us in the room with her, and then repeated it to the nurse who got taken over...

[miss_squiddy]

Oh but I thought that was so clever - the way she did it with different intonation and changed some of the words so mine was nice but the nurse's was evil. :)

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

(She was top of my want-to-take-home list!)

[green-badger.livejournal.com]

No, the bits cut out of books were elsewhere, excellent scene though!

As I said above I think we somehow got out of sync with the action as we certainly didn't see all the girls in white perform and lots of rooms were empty. :(

Ah well, never mind, we enjoyed the bits we saw. :)