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I Was Here Jane Beachey Your Mama Productions Weimar Room Season closed "Do you think when you pee?" This is the opening line to Adelaide Fringe show 'I Was Here', put on by Your Mama Productions. And the answer is yes! Seattle writer Jane Beachey has traveled the world in search of toilets and taken the interesting, the funny and the emotional phrases of graffiti off the toilet door and turned them into a play. This short but interesting play looks at what is said behind closed doors and in the secrecy of anonymity that is the toilet cubicle. 'I Was Here' stars three emerging Adelaide actors, Ali Gordon, Sarah Lockwood and Carolyn Ramsey, each armed with brightly coloured pens to use the stage as a cubicle. When the lights come up, Gordon enters and sets the stage by drawing a toilet onto the wall of the black space. Through the next half hour the three girls explore the text found in the toilets through spoken word, emotions and, of course, writing on the walls. The girls go from cute to snide to angry to sad, skillfully using repetition and overlapping. As the girls recognise most of the sayings from pub toilets and club cubicles, they laugh in recognition. For the boys, I guess you can now find out why we take so long to go to the toilets. The staging of what has been work shopped is fun but I'm not sure why it was created or what writer Jane Beachey is trying to say. Worth a look for the fun of all the interesting takes on toilet inscriptions and you can leave a message on the basin as you go. |
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