POEtry SCHMOEtry

It was a difficult choice... do we stay at home to watch the Eurovision Song Contest, or do we use the 100 guilder ticket we bought to see Lou Reed/Robert Wilson and Thalia Theatre production, 'POEtry' - based on the work of Edgar Allen Poe.

Watching this mostly German (songs in English) modern opera, I wondered what Reed was thinking when he got involved. Though visually enchanting, it lacked soul, it lacked a vibe, god knows what, it lacked something. Sex perhaps. And with someone behind me having the mother of all coughing fits, I couldn't wait for the first act to end so I could go.

I have never seen so many people leave a play or any kind of show during the intermission.