Devolution

Wow! This evening was happygoff‘s Devolution show, and it was very special. I arrived just in time for the warm-up, where Gothic choir N-chant, all dressed up in long hooded black gowns sang an eclectic mix of songs, including A Elbereth Gilthoniel. After an interval, we returned to find a dark room for the main event, Devolution. The only lighting was a circle of candles, and tiny torches given to all the audience, which we could point where we liked to see what was happening. We were arranged in a circle, and the choir (still in the long black hooded gowns) stood behind and all around us, providing a live human soundtrack to the actors in the middle. And there was lots of very artsy emotional writhings and bizarre and very sensual dancing, They covered a range of emotions, with chanting by the choir to set the mood. It was heavily audience participation, with lots of taunting and teasing, and getting dragged to the middle to be part of the performance (Remind me never to sit at the front ever again ever ever ever *aaaaaargh*). Overall very strange, but very nice indeed. *bounces*