A young lady wearing a blindfold feels her way on-stage and takes her seat. Remaining blindfolded she unwraps a package beside her chair and we are informed through a series of written cards that we are now watching 'Homage to Uncertainty' - then the stage goes dark.
What follows is a peculiar combination of monologues, situationist comedy and gentle clowning performance. There are great stretches of silence during this performance and great dollops of confronting honesty. Sometimes it appears that Emma Beech has lost her thread and she even leaves the room at one point, apparently on an errand.
The show is one of the most interesting and confusing pieces I have yet seen at this Festival and is very true to the title. Nothing is certain here. Not even who the audience are.
It's a show that prompts one to think about unfinished business, missed opportunities, the unexpected nature of life and what the hell is actually happening on stage.
Beech is an engaging performer who, despite her supposed uncertainty in some matters, knows precisely what she is doing and manages the situations she presents with an effortless naturalness which makes some of the odder aspects of the show just as engaging as those which are more conventional.
I thoroughly enjoyed this performance and, appropriately enough, I'm not entirely certain why...
What follows is a peculiar combination of monologues, situationist comedy and gentle clowning performance. There are great stretches of silence during this performance and great dollops of confronting honesty. Sometimes it appears that Emma Beech has lost her thread and she even leaves the room at one point, apparently on an errand.
The show is one of the most interesting and confusing pieces I have yet seen at this Festival and is very true to the title. Nothing is certain here. Not even who the audience are.
It's a show that prompts one to think about unfinished business, missed opportunities, the unexpected nature of life and what the hell is actually happening on stage.
Beech is an engaging performer who, despite her supposed uncertainty in some matters, knows precisely what she is doing and manages the situations she presents with an effortless naturalness which makes some of the odder aspects of the show just as engaging as those which are more conventional.
I thoroughly enjoyed this performance and, appropriately enough, I'm not entirely certain why...
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