The Great Big Bonsai Cacti Show was very eclectic, confusing but engaging and humorous. The plays were continuous, as if to not let go of the audience's attention, there was never a boring moment.
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Evaluative Phase A04 The Great Big Bonsai Cacti Show was very eclectic, confusing but engaging and humorous. The plays were continuous, as if to not let go of the audience's attention, there was never a boring moment. They gripped the audience. The rhythm of the play was quick and it was always holding the audience's attention. "What's the difference between a poor play and a good one? I think there is a very simple way of comparing them. A play in performance is a series of impressions; little dabs, one after another, fragments of information of feeling in a sequence, which stirs the audience's perceptions. A good play sends many messages, often several at a time, often crowding, jostling, overlapping one another... in a poor play the impressions are well spaced out, they lope along in single file, and in the gaps the heart can sleep, while the mind wonders...


