Easter Holidays - Faust
Gidday,
School broke up on Wednesday, & the first couple of days of holiday I spent lying in, going to the gym, watching lots of the world cup cricket, & generally just chilling out. On Saturday night Will & I went into London to see a production of Goethe's 'Faust'.
It was amazing, as far as you can get from traditional theatre. It was staged over 5 floors of a disused warehouse, & the audience were free to wander at will & 'stumble' across the production. Everyone had to wear quite scary masks to differentiate them from the cast. 
To start off with you had to get in a lift & were let off at different floors. Will & I had to get off on the 2nd floor along with 3 others. It was really dark, & frankly quite terrifying! I barely let go of Will's hand all night!! There was this feeling that anyone could jump out of you at any time. It really was an amazing performance, when you did stumble across bits of the play being acted you could then choose to follow the main actors around the building if you wanted. They run through the whole performance twice, & we certainly took in a lot more the second time around.
To start off with you had to get in a lift & were let off at different floors. Will & I had to get off on the 2nd floor along with 3 others. It was really dark, & frankly quite terrifying! I barely let go of Will's hand all night!! There was this feeling that anyone could jump out of you at any time. It really was an amazing performance, when you did stumble across bits of the play being acted you could then choose to follow the main actors around the building if you wanted. They run through the whole performance twice, & we certainly took in a lot more the second time around. The attention to detail on the set was amazing. It was set in the 1950's in America & 1 whole floor consisted of a bar, an American style diner, a motel complete with flashing neon, & a fully functioning cinema. You could sit on a bar-stool right next to members of the cast & a few lucky members of the audience were served drinks by the actor playing the barman. On other floors there were, amongst other things; a pine forest with 'snow' on the ground which crunched 
underfoot, a school classroom & locker-room, a corn field, a hay barn, a high school dance in full swing, old Faust's study & adjoining apothecary shop, long dark corridors lit only by candle & lined with Madonnas... Because everything was so dark & gloomy, & we were all wearing masks, all the other senses were heightened. The cinema smelt of pop-corn, the bar of stale booze, the pine forest of pine trees & so on. I know I'm raving on, but it really was the most amazing 'show' I've ever experienced. I'd recommend those in the UK to go see it, but it has actually finished running. We were lucky enough to get tickets to the last night. Below I've pasted a few links to reviews of the show, as they will describe things a lot better than me! I made the mistake of reading quite a few reviews before we saw the show, so was understandably a bit apprehensive about the whole thing!
underfoot, a school classroom & locker-room, a corn field, a hay barn, a high school dance in full swing, old Faust's study & adjoining apothecary shop, long dark corridors lit only by candle & lined with Madonnas... Because everything was so dark & gloomy, & we were all wearing masks, all the other senses were heightened. The cinema smelt of pop-corn, the bar of stale booze, the pine forest of pine trees & so on. I know I'm raving on, but it really was the most amazing 'show' I've ever experienced. I'd recommend those in the UK to go see it, but it has actually finished running. We were lucky enough to get tickets to the last night. Below I've pasted a few links to reviews of the show, as they will describe things a lot better than me! I made the mistake of reading quite a few reviews before we saw the show, so was understandably a bit apprehensive about the whole thing!
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