Tomas Ford vs. The Audience ??

‘Tomas Ford vs. The Audience’ is in association with ARTRAGE and Weeping Spoon Productions. The show starts at 10.00 pm each evening at the Blue Room until 4^th November. With the previous show finishing just before nine, then a 9 or 9.30 would have been a better start time.

Before entering the grunge club, each member of the audience is asked to sign a waiver that they will not leave before the end (this did not stop one member) and would not object to being degraded. They then had to dress in boiler suits for protection. The expectation of what was to follow was far greater than the reward.
            The set was that of an old cellar with a smoke machine, bubble machine and strobe lights. The monster, Tomas Ford (very reminiscent of Adam Ant), was released from his cage. He sang several numbers whilst gyrating around and annoying the audience, but the ‘versus’ suggested that there would be clever banter. There was virtually no spoken word, and that which was spoken, was distorted by his effects microphone used for his singing.
            There is no doubt that Tomas (a really pleasant chap) can sing, and could probably make a living as a pop performer. He sang in styles from Sid Vicious to Roxy Music’s Brian Ferry, but the initial novelty soon died off as Ford continued to embarrass himself, rather than the audience.
            Ford has proved that he can do first rate monologues and sing, I just hope that he finds his niche and gets a break. Disappointed.

I know how gross it is to post in response to a review, but just to clarify something, actually both the waiver and the bouncer encourage you to leave at any point if you feel you feel the performance is either too much for you or you're not feelin' it. That's a pretty vital part of the show as it's a bit of a safety switch for some of the work. We will work on clarifying that before tonight's show. As a side note, to lend some context to the review, you caught what I hope to be the worst night of the season. Apologies. On the other two nights so far, this show has recieved absolutely ecstatic responses from audiences and has been an absolute riot to be part of but last night, the good theatre mojo was obviously not in the air for a number of reasons I won't go into here. Aloha and gracias for the review, Tomás

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