Childhood delight relived

Remember when you were a child and you saw something for the first time. Don’t you wish you could feel that way again sometimes?

The duel

I’m happy to report that this week I regressed back to being a spellbound two year old while watching Donka: A Letter To Chekov, at the Festival of Perth.
We’ve all seen juggling, but juggling balls of ice before ceremoniously smashing them on the floor, showed amazing skill. There was a duel where both parties met a slow death. Each death was played out by squirking water high into the air from hundreds of plastic round tomatoe sauce bottles. There were impossible acrobatics feats performed on the floor while being projected onto a large screen. Have you ever seen anyone walk along a persons outstretched forearm? These were just some of the images my mind had to grapple with, while my ears were flooded with a combination of whimsical or haunting musical pieces. His Majesty’s stage has never been so mistreated as the troupe of 9 performers smashed ice and threw water all over it. Like me, at the end the audience was stunned into five minutes silence before we all remembered how to clap.
One things for sure, I’ll never be able to look at a bald man again without considering the myriad of things he could balance on his head.
If you are in Perth try and catch it before it goes, otherwise if Donka comes to town make sure you grab a ticket before it gets sold out.