The Thousands

Tell me that you also think the concept of ‘audience interaction’ doesn’t make sense – you pay good money to see a trained actor perform, then they ask a ‘lucky volunteer’ from the audience to get up onstage and do the hard yards. Nothing lucky about that. An Oak Tree plays on the concept of interaction, only the ‘lucky vounteer’ is a pre-arranged local ‘celeb’, roped in to act in a play they’ve neither seen nor heard a word of. Kind of like, Thank God You’re Here, but way less retarded. The run for this play looks something like New York, London, Sydney, Perth. Scriptwriters Joel and Ethan Coen, actress Frances McDormand, and community radio shock jock Peter Barr have all had a stab. No prizes for guessing who we got. Who knew the Coen Bros hung out in Perth on a Tuesday, huh? – DM.