tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post6624514622334028993..comments2024-03-21T17:03:44.741-04:00Comments on A work unfinishing: A Good Night for Ghosts: a review of Then She FellZelda Knapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-28629083666307945282018-04-16T11:08:42.213-04:002018-04-16T11:08:42.213-04:00So I've been searching for this. I experienced...So I've been searching for this. I experienced the scene with the doctor. But I never got the key. He did not play the game with me. My keys would not open the box. And then after the nurses were not happy that I hadn't opened it. But the show moved on. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-10748301981885614182018-03-22T02:11:30.635-04:002018-03-22T02:11:30.635-04:00I also had the shell game with the doctor, and you...I also had the shell game with the doctor, and you are absolutely right about the letter/poem. Its applicability to my life and my own secret anxieties literally took my breath away. I had a similar feeling after listening to the Red Queen talk about how "our daughters are pawns".Danihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01763062298156516448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-50643990922015692018-02-13T02:24:25.362-05:002018-02-13T02:24:25.362-05:00I went a few weeks ago, my favorite experience out...I went a few weeks ago, my favorite experience out of the 10 shows that I did. <br /><br />One scene that apparently only I had done amongst the ten people that I went with. In the same room as the tea party I was sat down at the long table where the head doctor pored me a drink, he set a locked box in front of me, as I went to unlock it with my keys that they gave us, he pulled out a smaller key, I had to earn it by playing three cup monte. Anyway after earning the key the doctor left me alone and I opened the box, in it was either a letter, poem or excerpt from one of the books. It was absolutely beautiful and near haunting where I can’t seem to get it out of my head. I was hoping someone had the same scene and could give me a better idea where the writing is from. Colt H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13096177768238594680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-76166072036017107992013-10-27T16:45:28.914-04:002013-10-27T16:45:28.914-04:00I went this weekend for the third time. Just when ...I went this weekend for the third time. Just when I thought I'd seen it all, I had two new scenes! I was led to a little chair underneath the stairs to the basement and told to wait. Then a door in front of me cracked open and I saw, through the mirror, Tall Alice washing herself (PG). When she noticed I was there, she came closer and spoke to me from where I couldn't see her, asking me "Is it better to do what you're told, or what you want?" Between questions, she had me hand her her clothes and she got dressed. Then she came out, clambered up the stairs and appeared above me, reflected in the mirror again. She asked how old I was when I first fell in love, and his name, and what I loved about him, and if we lived happily ever after.<br /><br />Scene 2: I was led back to the main lobby by the doctor. She laid out a chessboard and a few chess pieces, explaining that this was the board set up for Alice Through the Looking-Glass. She talked me through the game, as I moved the Alice pawn further down the board until Alice became Queen.<br /><br />The rest of the scenes were all ones I'd seen before, though in a very different order. I got to determine the ingredients for the tea this time, and the night ended with the Hatter in the bedroom.<br /><br />Also, my sister said after the Alice mirror dance (the one with the picture-frame mirror, not the one in the White/Red Queens' parlors), that one of the Alices stayed with her while the other led the other audience member away, and she and Alice mirrored each other and ate an orange. I'm kinda jealous.Zelda Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-26316409701889159952013-03-22T12:18:55.676-04:002013-03-22T12:18:55.676-04:00This was an absolutely amazingly fantastic magical...This was an absolutely amazingly fantastic magical evening. Thanks so much Zelda, for bringing me.<br /><br />~DanielBanyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14590166629376970490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-13179512739512678382013-03-22T12:05:00.386-04:002013-03-22T12:05:00.386-04:00[cont 2]
I'm missing a bit of sequence again. ...[cont 2]<br />I'm missing a bit of sequence again. I was separated from the second guest, and a Nurse led me to a small room, bearing a tray with two shot glasses and a vial. She concocted a potion using the vial and several bottles hidden inside books, which she handed to me one by one. We both drank. She left me with a third book, stuffed with papers. I forget who found me, but I think it was the White Rabbit.<br /><br />He led me again to his small office, swinging the hanging light back and forth between us, locking eyes with me. Still maintaining eye contact, he pulled out of the file cabinets behind him: two paper placemats, two white roses, two paint brushes, and a jar of red paint. Together we painted our roses red, though he left me alone and I continued on at it on my own for a bit. A Nurse came for me, putting away our supplies. We deposited the wet roses in a drawer but retrieved a dry painted rose, which we deposited in a small shrine room of red and white roses just down the hall. She then led me to Lewis Carroll's office.<br /><br />He, barefoot, found me and asked if I took dictation. I sat at his rolltop desk and managed to keep up, only just. But mid letter, he pushed on the bookcase, which revealed itself to be a secret passageway: we walked through a small garden, mostly soil, to a floor with the wooden floorboards partially ripped up, making a sort of causeway across a shallow pond of water. I sat at a chair at the end of this while he continued his dictation, sloshing through the water to another armchair. He seized the letter before I had finished, signed it, sealed it in a small bottle, and sent it to float with countless others in the shallow water. A Nurse fetched me away, and we left him, alone with his sorrow.<br /><br />I was brought to the chapel door, which turned into a window, through which I watched my friend Daniel be the Red Queen's servant. Tall Alice arrived and resisted the Red Queen's grooming. Then, after the Alice mirror dance, a Nurse led Daniel and me to the ground floor. Daniel was sent into a small cubby under the stairs to fill out a form - I was deposited in the Mad Hatter's shop. Eventually I heard her querying her new assistant (who turned out to be Daniel) on his skills - he can't sew, but he can cook and he can write. She was glad he could write. When she found me, this time I picked a hat that fit.<br /><br />She brought us to the mirror frame room, where the Alices found us and did their other mirror dance. Tall Alice took Daniel off, and Short Alice took me to her small room, past hanging clothes, to the cupboard of dolls and dollhouse furniture. I brushed her hair and we spoke of love. She brought me back to the mirror frame room, where a cup of tea and my farewell letter awaited. She sat with me while I drank my tea, and Tall Alice appeared, passing from one door to another. She and Short Alice stared at each, saying goodbye to their reflections for the night.<br /><br />So freaking satisfying. While I also love Sleep No More, that show leaves you haunted. Then She Fell kisses you on the cheek and wishes you pleasant dreams.<br />Zelda Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-87854741300827355822013-03-22T11:57:22.888-04:002013-03-22T11:57:22.888-04:00[cont]
The White Rabbit left that third guest behi...[cont]<br />The White Rabbit left that third guest behind, and escorted the second guest and myself to witness the Red Queen's fit in her hospital room. Afterward, she opened the door to send us out (rather than what I expected, "You might as well come in."). But the White Queen swooped by just as our door opened, asking if we liked tea. <br /><br />She led us to the tea room, pulled out seats for us, danced around and atop the table, throwing all the chairs away, then slamming the table up against the wall, stacked/hung chairs to the legs, climbed to the top. The Doctor came in, looked at her reprovingly, gave her her meds, and she left. The Doctor then asked other guest "sweet or spicy," "smooth or [something else]," "red or white?" With each answer, he would climb a ladder to select a different bottle, then hand it to me with instructions (two of these, three pinches of this, one spoonful). When he finished, he instructed me, "let that steep for 8 minutes," then left us. <br /><br />The White Rabbit appeared and placed chairs in the far corner for us to sit in, then performed a ridiculously athletic dance with the table. The Mad Hatter arrived, two more guests in tow (Daniel and the third guest from before), whom she instructed to sit with us. White Rabbit and Mad Hatter did comical battle across the table and room. Eventually the two Queens arrived and set table and chairs, told us where to sit, and dumped saucers and teacups and spoons and a silver tea set with abandon upon the table. The tea party had begun! They did a complicated routine with cup, saucer, and spoon that they seemed to be nodding at us to join in on, but I was too busy gasping with delight to make much more effort than toasting the empty cup and stirring with my spoon. The Mad Hatter kept insisting "I want a clean cup! Everyone move down one." After several rounds of this, the tea was finally poured. White Queen tucked napkin into my collar, which really didn't work with my plunging v-neck dress, but what can you do. Was holding White Rabbit's came the whole time but he reclaimed it. I forget who took the other two off, but the White Queen asked me and the other to have more tea, and we remained. <br /><br />Then she led us to the bed, where she told us our bedtime story, then left us. In the cupboard here I found the lockbox with the dollhouse furniture that had been in the waiting room in the show's previous location. The Mad Hatter came in, handed me a small vial of white powder. She danced and contorted on top of the cupboard, then made herself a potion, using the vial she had handed to me. She pulled out either a book or a thick stack of papers, found her place in the text, and sang her ghostly song into a microphone.<br />Zelda Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-59176530032341393362013-03-22T11:41:25.490-04:002013-03-22T11:41:25.490-04:00Last night I went to Then She Fell again, this tim...Last night I went to Then She Fell again, this time at its new location, three stories of an old little building on the side of a church.<br /><br />Initially, my friend Daniel and I were led, along with two other guests, downstairs to the chapel area, where Tall Alice sat on a bench, a small vial full of paper next to her (epiphany - it must have been one of the vials of letters I helped Lewis Carroll compose later that night!). I think this must be to replace the hand-washing scene from the previous location - Alice, rather than cleaning her hands, uncrumpled scraps of paper til Lewis Carroll appeared. They danced a longing dance on the staircase, climbing and crumpling, clutching each other, and breaking away. Eventually the other Alice appeared, interrupting the two. <br /><br />The four of us were directed to the White Queen's parlor and we saw, through the mirror, the Red Queen tormenting the White Rabbit in her own parlor. Then was a repeat of what I had seen on my previous visit - the White Queen's party, the Alice mirror dance, Short Alice in the Red Queen's parlor and her torment of Lewis Carroll in the chapel, the White Queen and White Rabbit in her parlor, then White Rabbit beckoned us in.<br /><br />This time, rather than being left behind when the White Rabbit left, I got to follow him, carrying a white rose - we left only my friend Daniel behind in the parlor. He led us upstairs to a small room with a table and two metal chairs, and pulled off four petals from the rose, one for each of us. Three of us deposited our petals in a locked coin box, the fourth (one of the other guests) affixed hers to a letter containing the song sung by the hatter, which the White Rabbit pointed out to us.Zelda Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-88264919853209182772013-01-05T19:27:57.347-05:002013-01-05T19:27:57.347-05:00Oh merde, really? Here I was hoping no one but the...Oh merde, really? Here I was hoping no one but the performer would witness my stint as a handmaiden!Zelda Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00654314419681927384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072249128151227164.post-90504120644129957332013-01-05T18:45:37.246-05:002013-01-05T18:45:37.246-05:00Here's something I found really cool. It'...Here's something I found really cool. It's something you wouldn't know unless you went to see the show again: while you're in the Red Queen's room holding the small mirror, there are other people behind both two-way wall mirrors watching you without your knowledge.Nalandialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09736819546159406185noreply@blogger.com