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.
- Wow, quite a mind-fuck!
- Hillar, you are a genius – what amazing concepts – the most gripping experience / stuff I've ever witnessed – last not least, the music was absolutely great.
- Any comments I could make would be, I think, utterly superfluous, and miss the point entirely. It was an incredibly difficult experience, but nonetheless one well worth experiencing …
- I don't know exactly what to say – partially because I'm stunned, I have a headache, I'm awed, bored and also think that the play is both awful and wonderful. Some concepts are great – visuals are striking and jarring – but not very cohesive (though fragmentation and alienation are probably the expressions you are trying to convey – but heh, I'm not going to get sucked into “intentional fallacy”). The ending is too long – after all – life is oh – so short. (Angie)
- This was my first time. I wonder whether the creative genius behind this enterprise had been taking LSD.
- I thought it was very good – I just didn't like it. (Adam)
- What a great show – it is wonderful when you have to choose, you're forced to choose what you listen to.
- I loved it because I felt every emotion possible. (S. Chalmers)
- Only DNA can make me feel amused, aroused, uncomfortable, angry, sad … How many emotions are there?! (A. Blair)
- Sitting there in the darkness (actually standing) I felt such panic, fear, sorrow, chaos. But seriously, I was very affected and I had such a rush of unexplainable emotions that I had tears in my eyes and it was all I could do not to cry. This was an extremely unique experience but I'm just curious – what and whose stuff was wiped on my hand.
- You made me feel victimized and subjected to a kind of torture. As you continued the pain became more and more intense. As I left I felt a tremendous amount of guilt, although it was [really] turning my back to a world I did not want to face. The symbols and imagery were strong and this was a performance which I will remember for the rest of my life.
- It was a very strong, trying emotional experience and when the doors were opening and closing I knew it was time to go yet I couldn't make myself leave. The stark images will leave an imprint in my mind for a long time.
- Painful Powerful DNA. (Sara)
- DNA has done it … again. Challenged the limits to breaking points. I will remember. (Jackie van Veen)
- Brilliant Moving Shocking (someone from Buffalo News)
- I feel trapped inside the black studio … It felt like I died.
- I did not see the play – I only heard the words as music.
- Loud, incoherent and confusing? As per usual, but powerful nonetheless. (Fifi)