I have been thinking about audience participation, in terms of how comfortable an audience can become with a performance that they are willing to take part or fully throw themselves into the experience. Take Annie Sprinkles Post Porn Modernist, in which Sprinkles sat on a stage and let people come and look into her vagina through a tube with a light on. They would say hello, take a look and then move on. Is that only one type of audience though? A very brave type, that only hear about this kind of theatre because they are looking for it?

If you got 20 people just off the street, pretty much like we are going to do at the festival, how willing will they be to take part? After we show every extract of our performance and how we are building and creating them, it always comes back to the same thing, ‘how is the audience going to react?’. Of course with our groups some require more audience interaction than others, but just looking at our group, how will they react? Will they be perfectly comfortable with scrutinizing the human form so much? To decide what is right and wrong in how people act. We are trying to make people catch themselves thinking this kind of thing and questioning if it’s right. The world we live in now is obsessed with cosmetics and how we look. Our performance is just the extreme of what’s already happening.