The Game of Me

I underwent the latest, and possibly final, immersive experience from the Belgian theatre company ONTROEREND Goed last week.

It is an experience of shared conversations and two-way mirrors, observing and being observed, and at the end of it, you are given a disc.

In keeping with this review I thought that this might be a disc of video. The reviewer did not bothered to play it before posting their review.

I've just played mine and in fact it is an audio disc.

The first stage in the production has you sit in a chair on your own opposite a mirror.

You may correctly speculate that the mirror is a two-way mirror and that you are being observed.

In fact you're being observed by some other ticket buyer  a few minutes further on in the production from you. They give their opinion of what they read from... well from you.

The subject I observed later was a lady in a colourful dress that I named Olga and to whom I awarded several cats.

So as I sat quietly in my chair, this is what somebody apparently read from my face (or rather made up from their own imagination).

You can call me Evan.