Binge Cul­ture Col­lect­ive were “attempt­ing to cre­ate an envir­on­ment that’s as flu­id and respons­ive as a dream is.” They want to “push the bound­ar­ies of per­form­ance and explore the things that can’t be done onscreen or online.” I think they have suc­cess­fully achieved these two aims. Wheth­er the per­form­ance says any­thing more than ‘exper­i­ment­ing with craft’ will depend on your indi­vidu­al inter­pret­a­tion.

There is audi­ence par­ti­cip­a­tion (mostly col­lect­ively and mostly good-natured) so be pre­pared to play along. Inter­spersed with live action scenes is a bit of mask work which adds to the loopy present­a­tion. Per­formers Simon Har­en and Iso­bel MacKin­non are the front people. They are sup­por­ted by Sceneo­graph­ers Rachel Baker and Theo Taylor. All four try to dir­ect audi­ence atten­tion. Some­times it can get a bit con­fus­ing as there is more than one scene going on at the same time. The pro­jec­tion is the final piece to this show. I liked the way the live and filmed sec­tions fit­ted togeth­er.

In the end it felt like an impro­vised per­form­ance – lots of cool things happened, I had a good time, and I walked out of the theatre buzz­ing.

  • Wake Less on at BATS Theatre to 19 Novem­ber