Viva Brighton Issue #41 July 2016

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THEATRE ..................................... Something Street ‘A sort of immersive theatre thing’ I’m about to try to review an experience without giving away very much at all about the experience in question. Here goes… We arrive at the temporary chipboard structure that popped up a few weeks ago on Madeira Drive, and we’re 15 minutes late. I’ve come with my boyfriend George, who is a bit confused about the whole situation, because all I’ve told him is that we’re going to a ‘sort of immersive theatre thing’ at a place on the seafront which is ‘sort of outdoors but in a room, I think’. The ‘immersive theatre thing’ is the first performance of Something Street, and I really don’t know any more about it than that. Everybody else is waiting in groups of about ten outside the building – five groups in total – each led by a ‘time-keeper’. We hurry over to our group, who are all watching our time-keeper, Josh, in a way that suggests he has just said, or is about to say, something important. I guess it was the former, as we are immediately led inside. Each group is taken into a different room, each room set up as a different scene in a different era, with a different set of characters. In the room we see a snippet of a story, we get to know a tiny bit about the characters, and then we move on to the next. It’s always New Year’s Eve. Some scenes are funny, some are sad. In some scenes we – the ‘audience’ – stand back and watch, in others we become like extras in the play. As we enter each room, we have no idea what’s coming. But then I think that’s the point. You can try to follow the connections between the characters and the storylines, or whether you’re watching five little stories play out or whether it is, in fact, all part of one big story. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter. What matters is the common theme that runs through the performances. But I can’t give away the theme. And at the end, all of the groups join together for a big, noisy, joyous celebration, which almost makes me forget that it’s June and the sun is shining. I can’t say very much more without revealing much too much, because going in with no idea what to expect is the best way to go in, in my experience. I can say that it was unlike any other performance I’ve watched. The emotional scenes are especially captivating, in that you’re standing right ‘on stage’ next to the actors. And there is some particularly well-scripted comic relief in between. Looking back, I wonder if I would have had a completely different experience if I’d been in one of the other groups, going through the stories in a different order. But I’d better stop there. RC somethingstreet.co.uk ....51....
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