Comments on: Un/Familiar Fringe Episode Three: Un/Afraid http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/unfamiliar-fringe-episode-three-unafraid/ Group authored publication covering theatre and the performing arts in London and beyond Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Poonperm Paitayawat http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/unfamiliar-fringe-episode-three-unafraid/#comment-5834 Poonperm Paitayawat Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:48:03 +0000 http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/?p=3520#comment-5834 I had a chance to see Anomie last weekend and I much agree with your review. The multimedia is stunning and highly inspirational but as the show progresses it becomes more and more exhausting to the eyes and the brain. For me it's the sort of show that you have to be so focused while watching. The images, the interpretations do not flow. There are too many great visual moments but hardly any of them seem to have long lasting impacts on me. This, I feel, is partly due to the fact that Anomie is 50% multimedia, 50% physical theatre and I didn't feel connected to either of those. Theatre is engaging because it is live but when half --or more than half--of the show is done through big plasma TVs, that connection is somehow lost (for me). Then, I started looking at "how they do it" rather than "what they are telling us". That said, my friend and I were wondering if the show was scheduled in the earlier hours (when our brains were still functioning well), we might have reacted differently to it. I had a chance to see Anomie last weekend and I much agree with your review. The multimedia is stunning and highly inspirational but as the show progresses it becomes more and more exhausting to the eyes and the brain. For me it’s the sort of show that you have to be so focused while watching. The images, the interpretations do not flow. There are too many great visual moments but hardly any of them seem to have long lasting impacts on me. This, I feel, is partly due to the fact that Anomie is 50% multimedia, 50% physical theatre and I didn’t feel connected to either of those. Theatre is engaging because it is live but when half –or more than half–of the show is done through big plasma TVs, that connection is somehow lost (for me). Then, I started looking at “how they do it” rather than “what they are telling us”.

That said, my friend and I were wondering if the show was scheduled in the earlier hours (when our brains were still functioning well), we might have reacted differently to it.

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