Shut Up, Play!

Sweet ECA    6 - 31 August @ 15.00   

This is possibly the most polite and genuinely welcoming company on the Fringe this year. With good reason, I may add, as they depend heavily on the audience to participate and engage for this witty, original piece to work. This show encourages you to: KEEP YOU PHONE TURNED ON… Use a flashlight any time you feel like it. Take all the photographs you want to.  Chat to your neighbour – get to know the rest of the audience – make a new friend!

An absurdist approach is taken at every level: the cast of four men and one woman are clad in daffodil yellow cagoules and have no spoken dialogue whatsoever. They communicate with each other and the audience in a universal language of sound and movement with such a sense of fun that sweeps the audience into their happy, loopy world of pop-up books, puppetry, rock music and making strange sounds underwater…

What this show gives us is a celebration of sound and the myriad ways we can produce rhythm, tone and pitch.

The innovative use of technology is a delight and I would urge you to visit Sweet ECA and enjoy the silliness and the smile you have all day long… It may not be musical theatre, per se, but it is an inspiration to all.