Fused

Lir Academy

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One can’t help feeling slightly apprehensive when handed an “instruction manual” on entering Dan Bergin’s audience-interactive theatre piece Fused. It sounds too much like confused and words such as “Amiga” and “Internal Drive” in the manual left me hoping the experience would be brief, while clutching the floppy disc that I took from a pile in the foyer. By the end, however, I could have done with just one more game, a bite from the sandwich of Laundry Boy (Ste Murray), and the microphone all to myself.

After an introductory warm-up scene involving the attempts of 12 chosen audience members to direct Laundry Boy in retrieving a password from a grieving man using nothing but a headless teddy bear, a cup and a packet of tick-tacks, things progress nicely to the next level.

This is a light-hearted and well-structured form of non-threatening interactive theatre that leaves you wondering what tomorrow night will bring.

Until Sept 14

Jennifer Lee