Ottawa Fringe 2013, We Glow. Written and acted by Brad Long and Emily Pearlman.

Directed by Kevin Orr. Sound by Sean Green

This is the domain of serious contemporary experimental theatre that I must say from the outset is not to my taste. Nevertheless, there is a theme that is set out at the beginning..a creepy film of the mating rituals of crabs on Christmas Island that is carried on through the play . A high powered urban couple return from a honeymoon there and are thrust upon us as they are forced to prove why their company should promote them. It all takes place around a huge board table where the two are addressing the board and us the audience, as the members of the company. The performance is structured by the questions that appear on a screen, the traces of an invisible power that is watching the whole thing during this interview. The language is an ongoing, rapid, dense collage of all the contemporary buzz words, administrative speak, theories of contemporary social behaviour emptied of their content but rather pasted together to resemble the deconstructed figures of a  Dada collage. Here it creates  an impression of urgency, pressure, tension, slick urban manipulation. The words almost function as atonal music as they often talk at the same time, then  shift gears and keep going.…As the actors speak , their movements, also resemble among other things, a pumped up scenario  of exercises from modern weight loss techniques that are sold on DVD.  The bodies glow with energy!  The choreography of  what one might this   contemporary urban dance/theatre is conceived and directed by Kevin Orr.

Lively, original,  funny, the audience loved it but it did not engage me. Sorry.