Suppose you put on a play and no one turned up. Or the audience came but you just couldn’t see them. Those are the intriguing scenarios blurred in an irresistible, higgledy-piggledy show by crafty Dutch company Theater Artemis that has its young audience (ages 5-11) asking endless questions.
My nine-year-old, Hilda, has a few of her own as we arrive. For starters: who is the man, with ponytail, sparkly leggings and a light strapped to his forehead, roaming the auditorium lost in his thoughts? The first surprise, breezily explained by an usher, is that he is unaware of us. “We’re invisible and silent to him,” Hilda whispers.
