The monitor shows 7.40pm when I arrive at the station. The play starts at 8pm, leaving me enough time to stroll down the Broadway toward the New Wimbledon Theatre. It's the first time I'm going to the theatre on my own so I don't want to be too early and spend three hours looking at the curtains (I'm not great at socialising...).
As I sit down (between two huge men), I notice two set of eyes looking, straight from the stage, down at me. It’s like I’m facing Mona Lisa. Wherever I look, they’re looking at me. I feel self conscious but in a nice way. I look around to avoid the eyes fixed on me. The red curtains, the white statues, the wooden stairs, the banisters and wonder if in England too, having green in a theatre is bad luck. I can’t see any so I guess so.
I was sitting in the same room just two weeks ago for the Vagina Monologues. It was a brilliant show, funny, sensible, sad. Three woman, Three chairs and it was enough to fill the entire room.
This is a different show. I won't give you a review, being a admirer of Armstrong and Miller, I could hardly be objective. Plus I don't want to take the risk of giving you the details about the show as it would be a shame. I loved being surprised by them more than anything and wouldn’t want to spoil it for potential viewers. Ok, as you insist, here is a little insight: food fight, songs about anus, spectator abuse, chorus etc…are some of the many entertainment laid down for you.
It was even more succulent as the show had a special touch for the People of Wimbledon (which reminds me I added a special touch to my neighbour too as I kept unintentionally wiping my shoes on his trousers...).
After the show, one of the spectator told his girlfriend ( I see couples everywhere so it could have been is sister) "amazing stuff". It made me think how easily we use some words like 'amazing', 'awesome', 'gorgeous', 'beautiful' so much that they don't mean anything anymore (my flatmate thinks Cheryl in Hollyoaks is beautiful...). But then I realised that I was amazed. Not only by the performance of the comedians, but the way they reached to the public and grabbed it to be part of the show with them. For a moment, the whole room was one, there was no strangers, no worries, just everybody having fun together. And this, I have to say, is pretty amazing.
