I got there and back home again and now I'm seriously brain-fogged with fatigue, but not so much that I can't pop in here to say how great the show was.
I rarely go to the theatre. I sort of had a notion that a play is something where you get loads of people talking to one another and a plot and some sort of grand finale or something.
By contrast, this play was for me the dramatic/spoken version of a ballad. I love balladic music. Think of ballads, whether folk music or pop music, where a story is told by the singer. To me, the music in the song is the 'emotion', and the singer is 'telling the story of something that happened'.
The actor was the spoken version of that but with music. Wow, I never realised there was drama that I'd feel like that about.
When the play started, I struggled to hear because one of my hearing aids is broken, and the other badly needs adjusting, then I suddenly realised the words were projected onto the wall above the actor. Wow!!! Well, of course, I should expect a 'disability' play to be disability-friendly, but this was above and beyond.
At the end, the audience was asked for feedback and a lovely fellow audience member repeated the questions for me.
The only negative was that the audience wasn't very big. A fantastic play, very obviously enjoyed by people there. I chatted with another audience member, who seemed to be not much into the music, but gave me to understand that he really enjoyed it. Two of us enjoying it in different ways.
I cried quite a bit, both tears of joy at the discovery of the subtitles (surtitles?) and at some of the things the actor said.
So I don't know what a drama critic would say, but this particular audience member considered it well worth the visit.
