Vanishing Point's other show in the EIF was much more to my taste.  In Interiors the audience are observers, some might say voyeurs or even peeping toms although in truth nothing sufficiently salacious happens to justify those terms.

We are in undefined northern latitudes outside a house watching as a group of people gather for Peter's customary midwinter party celebrating the start of the steady lengthening of days that will lead to Spring and Summer.  His grandaughter is there. A young man she is interested in arrives.  A lady of Peter's age comes in with a cake dusting the snow off her boots, then a couple, unmarried but close and finally John a newcomer to the district completes the party.

There is no dialogue but some intermittent commentary, first from an unseen source but part of the way through the speaker appears on stage and watches with us as the party pursues the course that all such gatherings do. Food is served.  Drink is drunk.  Little conversational groups combine and dissolve, There is dancing.  There is happiness.  There is disappointment.  Eventually everyone leaves.

It's a warm, affectionate and poignant portrait of everyday human beings living everyday lives and is just lovely.

Just lovely too, and I dare to suggest warm and affectionate has been the audience response to the first two performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream.  The audiences have been gratifyingly large and advance sales indicate that will continue for the rest of the week.  There were reviewers in on opening night but their thoughts do not seem yet to have seen the light of day.  When they do I'll share them here.