Guestbooks
After every performance, the audience exits into a space where a couple of Guestbooks are laid out. Some people write in them; some don’t. Some send emails which are then taped into the books.
- Extraordinary! A cacophony of brilliance
- Never can describe the indescribable! Intensity and magic.
- Weird and wild stuff!!!
- Confusion – glamour.
- Indeed. Yes. Well. That was. So. Quite.
- Hate to admit it, but stunning. One does not know if one has been seduced or raped.
- This is a major work – it is not experience, it is ART.
- It most certainly was an experience.
- Sometimes interesting, often pretentious.
- Bizarre.
- At last, I saw a DNA Pound show. I'm sure Ezra is glad! (Paul Lefebvre)
- I think I'm drunk on just 1 beer.
- Enlightening, rare and wonderful.
- Astounding Pounding!
- 1 What the fuck was that???
- 2 I thought it was cool, so shut up! And please … no vulgarity. Thank-you.
- 1 Fuck you!
- A liberation in restraint.
- Lovely!! Wonderful!! Long!! Very long!! Just the way I like it!!
- I don't know. I can't think straight.
- Thanks for the vision.
- Needs more circus ie. man on stilts, dwarf, tightrope walk and an albino.
- Now I know the white race is doomed to a rarefied stratosphere.
- Thanks for the Champagne. Give a glass to all the performers too.
- Strange and jumpy!
- Spellbinding!
- 1 Boo Stunk
- 2 Fool! is this meant to resemble graffiti or should I put an intelligent remark? I thought it was good and as we all know, my opinion is next to God's.
- Wow! Weird! Whimsical!
- I have music that sounds like this looked.
- Dear Hillar – I can't tell you how grateful I am for what you do. You renew my faith in art, transforming mawkish sentimentality into a reason for being. (Paul)
- Intimate and Operatic. I loved it. When is the next time I will sit in a room with so many different people and experience such astonishing silence? Beauty and Horror. Congratulations to all. Am elated. (Sally)
- Thank you one again for the precision and passion of DNA. After seeing so much Toronto theatre that is uninspired, insipid, insultingly simplistic … it is a gust of fresh air to see POUNDEMONIUM. … I was thrilled by the surpassing beauty of the poetry (what I could hear), the delicious and mesmerizing repetition and overlap. I was swept by the scale of the staging. With gratitude for the Grace and Symmetry. (John Moore)
- Amazing production – but you could use a better writer.
- POUNDEMONIUM was beautiful. And painful. And funny. Many images are still ricocheting through my head. … Now I've been DNA deflowered. (Andrew Akman)
- Brilliant like the sun and pale like the moon … Measured perfection and random harvest of the senses.
- Brilliant! (Atom Egoyan)
- Hmmm.... Peculiar. (Andrew Dodd)
- Mesmerizing!
- My emotions varied as much as the tempo of the evening – and not always in accordance. (Jessica Fraser)
- An emotional world tour – wow!!
- Exquisite, moving, poetic.
- Phantasmagoria.
- It puts the audience member on the stage. Although physically challenging to deal with the sensory overload, if you snooze you lose.
- POUNDEMONIUM was an exquisite experience. You put a microscope to the universe and for three hours I was transfixed. To experience a simultaneous surrender of self and heightened awareness of self and others is truly unique. The frisson created by the joy and pain and silliness and profundity and roar and silence of the show was tremendously beautiful. The commitment of the performers was stunning and moving. Above all, the piece made me feel ALIVE! (Sally H)
- Hillar, wonderful, I've never been taken there before. (Christian)
- Can't say I've seen more creative theatre than this. GREAT STUFF.
- It was divine absurdity.
- Too tired to comment.