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Letting go: 1:1 experiences in The Drowned Man

As elusive as they can seem I had my very first 1:1 during the first hour or so of my second visit to The Drowned Man . In fact, during my first show, back in October 2013, I was actually witness to two people being chosen for the Doctor/PA 2:2 scene, however I thought they were being taken through a concealed exit and would just come out in a different room. How wrong I was! The idea that two randomly chosen audience members would be locked in a darkened room, made to dance with strangers and had torches shone in their faces was not something that I'd really considered could happen. I'd studied, created and experienced a decent range of non-traditional performance during my degree and I wrote about live art projects, Happenings and the Fluxus movement but I was way out of the theatre loop. I had forgotten what was possible. Punchdrunk were re-opening my eyes in so many ways. Over the 9 or 10 months that I regularly visited the show I was also studying Person Centered Therapy