Fringe Theatre

For my Fringe Theatre post I will be writing about “Bluets”.  “Bluets” was an incredibly unique show.  There were 3 actors and they played A, B, and C.  The actors each had their own stand on the stage.  Bluets was more like slam poetry than a theatre show.  There was a story but it was essentially one long poem that was read off by three people switching off lines.  It also used something that I never seen before in theatre which is the use of cameras and screens.  There was a big screen above the actors and that was the show really.  Each actor had a camera and they would make what was being shown on the screen live.  There was a TV behind each actor to make backgrounds and also a table that had another camera on it.  As one actor read out their lines, the other actors would stand near the TV to look like they were driving or on the tube.  They would also use the table to make it look like they were holding someone’s hand in the hospital.  There were many other things the actors acted out but those were the most common.  These aren’t my own words but my friend Killian referred to it as a live film and I totally agree with that.  The show was what was on the screen with the lines being narration to what was happening.  I had truly never seen anything like this; however, I do believe Romeo and Juliet with Tom Holland also uses a screen so I know this has been done before but this is the first time I’ve seen it and it blew me away.  As for the story, I thought it was pretty good.  The show is about depression and since I don’t have depression I can’t really comment on the accuracy but the show did have this melancholic mood that conveyed the feelings of the main character very well.  The show had a lot of blue in it and the main character had an obsession with the color.  The color blue is also something that I am very interested in and seeing all the different ways the color was used and the themes it conveyed was very enjoyable.  Overall I really enjoyed Bluets and it is definitely the most unique show I have ever seen in my life.