The frog at the bottom of the well thinks the sky is round

This French-English performance stood out from everything else we've seen during the showbox festival so far. We were ushered into a room reminiscent of a circus tent, and it started with the serving of small, sweet cakes. There was old-fashioned French music, which created a good atmosphere. Then a "narrator" started talking about a person, and we were perhaps taken into his childhood home. It was difficult to understand what the story really was here, but it could seem like they were visualizing childhood memories from the childhood home of a person. After the performance was over, we were allowed to walk around what would be considered the stage and look at the different rooms they had set up. 

We didn't quite follow what the story itself was trying to get across, but we liked all the little details around these rooms the actors had set up. There was one room in particular that I, Anna, particularly liked. When one of the actors shone a light on some pictures on the wall, they changed with the help of shadows made from nails, for example. This changed the whole way you saw the picture. A picture where you saw a 2D house became a 3D house with the help of the shadows.

The piece created a good atmosphere in the room, especially the French phrases that popped up every now and then helped to create a special atmosphere. The different corners of the room had small, interesting details that we were all fascinated by. On the other hand, some of us thought the show was a bit too long, but I, Erle, wonder if this is because the show was a bit difficult to understand.

"The set-up was really cool, that we got to watch while they set up the scenery and created the surroundings. They made this a separate part of the play, which is something we haven't seen before. Something stupid about the set-up, the fact that we were so close, into the room actually, was that we had very little space and had to sit on low and narrow benches. This went well, but several of us got back pain and found that it was easy to focus on the fact that we were sitting uncomfortably rather than following the play.

Written by the SUS editorial team 2019