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