"It must have taken a lot of guts to do this"
"Great! A very engaging show"
"Genuinely like nothing else out there... pushing the boundaries of what 'performance' means"
"Clever and thought provoking."
"Challenged the audience to leave their preconceptions behind and go into the unknown"
"An exhilarating change"
"I have never seen a singer-songwriter both locate themselves so clearly in the song and extract themselves for our benefit"
"Another level... really cool. brave work"
"A brave personal journey and very poetic"
"Great! Loved hearing your stories and the whole concept"
"Refreshingly original... the excitement and discomfort of the silence... This is real theatre"
"Truly fabulous. Very moving"
The Fringes of The Fringe
At the very fringes of The Fringe comes a unique journey – not only into the mind of a performer but also into the audience’s own. Inspired by the works of John Cage and Marina Abramovic, this is powerful, immersive and unforgettable experimental performance at its experimentalist!
Unique, Collective Experience
When we go to a show or concert, what are our expectations? To what extent do we, the audience, create the performance? How does the space affect us? How do other audience members impact on our experience? ‘Think of a Song’ sets out to explore these and other questions in a unique, collective, experimental-theatre experience.
Thinking Out Loud
Singer-songwriter Brian Madigan (AKA a Band named Brian) is famed for his lengthy, spoken intros. Indeed, during a previous Fringe Festival performance, he brought the house down when he introduced his last song but ran out of time to perform it.
So what if he were to remove the songs altogether – only thinking them ‘out loud’ as the audience were invited to imagine them? Would that be deeply uncomfortable? Transcendental? A brief moment of sanity amid the cacophony of everyday madness? Or an evening wasted?
There is, of course, only one way to find out.