THEATRE

Greg’s idea was to spend three weeks singing all he said, including asking directions in the street, rather as though he was in a Doris Day musical. The title may come from the reaction of some members of the public – I’m not sure. Some people’s spoken reactions are broken into phrases and we hear them repeated so as to pick out the rhythm. There is also quite a bit of talk about how we feel when singing, and about how we have evolved to speak but thus cannot swallow and breathe (and thus can more easily choke!) – clearly an evolutionary advantage. Indeed.

We are asked to sing our own name – well. Most of us, not me – and I think I may have enjoyed that. The woman next to me clearly had a trained voice, and that may have stopped things (she hated the show!) Greg later runs himself out of breath and that’s about it.

I think Greg has a good idea here, which could work, but he needs to think about the structure of the act and to take things a good bit further, and maybe be brave enough to have other and more advanced forms of audience participation. That is the way things are going!