When The Fun Stops, Try Again? – Pleasance Theatre
Described as 'part storytelling, part stand-up, part dream', When The Fun Stops, Try Again? is an interactive, audience-controlled show devised by Nathan Charles and Brightmouth productions. Drawing on his own experiences of gambling, Charles has created a show where the audience, guided by a PowerPoint presentation, goes through a series of stories and tasks exploring different forms of gambling and what it means to win or lose.
The audience entered the space to see a screen at the back of the stage, various items on a table on one side, a microphone on the other side and what looked like rubbish covering the floor at the back - on closer inspection, this was made up of things like discarded lottery tickets and packs of cards. The audience waited in their seats in silence when the ...