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This year, y’all. This. Damn. Year. I’m sure many of you have seen this season’s cathartic finale of Last Week Tonight. He and his team manage to capture exactly how I feel about leaving this pisspot of a year, and his blistering homage is unbelievably cathartic. At least, I found it so. For any Rip van Winkles in the audience who missed the last 12 months, here’s a shortlist of some of the many heartbreaks that rattled the world.
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I start this installment of Stories From The Strange Side with a short preface: this performance was created for an audience of one and crafted to make the most out of that shift in the performer-audience relationship. The contract has changed. Proceed, informed.
The theatre lobby is empty when you arrive. No performer, no seating; it doesn’t look like anything has been changed at all. Looking around, your gaze falls upon a note taped to the floor, inscribed with an arrow, pointing to another and another beyond; it appears your intrepid host has left a trail of breadcrumbs for you to follow. Seems you’ll have to work for this performance. |
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