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It sounded like my worst nightmare. 5.1. _____ Nevertheless, the excellent reviews

and a little persuasion from friends encouraged me to head into Edinburgh on a Friday night

and check into Hotel Medea, which is a six-hour overnight theatre experience. Despite

the enforced all-nighter, and my initial scepticism, not for a moment did I feel I’d rather be

in bed.

The role of the audience shifts as the play goes on. In the first act, we were all guests

at the wedding of Jason and Medea. 5.2. _____ This definitely relaxed everybody a little.

After a brief recovery period, half of the audience (myself included) found ourselves being

led downstairs into a room lined with bunk beds. One of the ‘nurses’ took charge of me, I was

dressed in pyjamas and tucked into bed with a cup of hot chocolate. I had become one

of Medea’s children. 5.3. _____ Lying in bed, I certainly felt like I was witnessing

an argument between my ‘parents’, Medea and Jason, from a child’s perspective. Their angry

words contrasted with the soothing lullaby being played, and whenever I tried inquisitively to

raise my head at a new turn of events, a nurse would appear at my bedside, stroking my hair

and telling me to go back to sleep.

At the end of the play, Medea’s children are told to run away and hide somewhere

in the building. 5.4. _____ Her reaction shows how fully the play is able to submerge you into

its world. By this point my scepticism had been completely washed away.

I would recommend Hotel Medea to anyone lucky enough to get a chance to go. This play

is an amazing experience, whether or not you happen to like this kind of innovative theatrical

style.

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A. The genuine fear on the face of one of the girls crouched in a closet with me proves

the play’s effectiveness.

B. I was convinced that a play which relied so heavily on the audience could not be

consistently effective.

C. Having watched the ceremony, we were invited to play instruments and dance until

the party broke down into a full-scale celebration to a live DJ set.

D. They have been performing it for around five years, and evidently in that time

the production has been polished.

E. It was in this scene that it became clear that the participatory aspect of the play was not

an arbitrary publicity stunt, but a fundamental part of the performance.