Wow, what a response we've had.  Even granted that people who stay for the question and answer period are going to be inclined towards liking the show, the positive feedback has been a little overwhelming.  But I'm not complaining....

The response has been strikingly different every night:  the first night, the audience primarily seemed impressed by the actual performance versus the symbolic impact.  The second night, people tapped into the humour of the show; last night people tapped into the seriousness of the show.  It's a cliché that every night at the theatre is different, but here it's really striking.

And I think that it's this - all the radically different feedback from audience members to specific parts of the show - that signals to me that on some level, it's working.  People leave this show with very explicit ideas of what they experienced, yet parts of the show have a different impact on each person - we've even had people outright disagree with each other about sections of the work.  I think that's quite an accomplishment.  We really have given the audience something they can make their own - there's no "getting it" for the show to work. 

I can't avoid making an obvious analogy to close this entry....  It's similar to how people respond to death: it has an impact on all of us, but what we do with that is different.  Cry Don't Cry opens up the possibility that any one of those responses is OK, what matters is allowing those responses some expression.