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  • Emily VelascoMLE_online@social.afront.org
    Oct 12, 2026, 3:54 PM

    I saw a bizarre little play at an experimental theater last night. The show made no sense in a David Lynch-ian sort of way, but it was fun.

    This little theater always packs 'em in for its strange offerings, and the audience is always seems to have an average age of like 26.

    It's so different than the situation at our community theater, where we only put on the most normal of shows and have an audience that seems to be mostly 80-year-olds who get upset that the children in Matilda are too insolent towards the adults.

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  • Emily VelascoMLE_online@social.afront.org
    Oct 12, 2026, 4:01 PM

    @recantha He was "the target."

    The show was called Voluntary Weapons Test. This trio of soldiers, one of whom was a whose research was on acoustics, was sent out into the desert and told to use all methods and materials at their disposal to capture a "highly adaptable target."

    They weren't told what the target was, what it would look like, what materials would be available to them, or what to do with the target once they captured it.

    The target was presented as being difficult to see, despite its obvious getup. The audience could see it, but the soldiers wouldn't notice it even as it slipped amongst them.

    It was never revealed what the target actually is or why it looks like that.

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  • Emily VelascoMLE_online@social.afront.org
    Oct 12, 2026, 4:37 PM

    @recantha They did ok. The play was trying to straddle a disorienting, hallucinatory experience and also being a comedy. I don't think that entirely worked.

    I think the target was dressed the way it was for laughs, but to me, the difficult-to-perceive nature would have played better if it had jumpsuits painted like rocks, or like bushes, or whatever. Maybe change the jumpsuit every time the target is off stage for a while.

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