Run!

(Or, how I helped to save the Doctor)

(SPOILERS for the Punchdrunk Show, The Crash of the Elysium)

The first thing we're told to do is 'run!' Time is of the essence here. The spaceship Elysium has crashed nearby, and we are the only ones who can help.

We're divided into three groups, Patrol, Analysis and Technical, and given numbers, so I'm number 12, Patrol Group, and we have the dubious honour of leading the way into the crashed ship, with Captain Soloman leading us. Corporal Albright brings up the rear. We're all wearing bio-hazard suits, but many have rejected the face masks (I did try, but it wearing it made my glasses fog up!)

'Watch the shadows. And, whatever you do, don't blink'. The grainy video message is received from the Doctor, who warns us that the ship was carrying living art work, 'and some of the art has escaped'.

'Crouch down, and watch that door'. We do as we're instructed, half scared, half hoping that something is going to come through the door. It's dark, smoky, and lit mainly by torches. At times we're in total darkness.

The message from the Doctor tells us he's in terrible danger, and about to die. We have to try and save him. There's a lot of running, past ducts, and into the darkness. Through one door, a figure is covered with a piece of sacking. Capt. Solomon removes it and reveals what we all know to be a Weeping Angel. 'Keep looking at it', someone shouts. As we advance through the tunnels, finding more information, the Angels advance. We see them on the monitor. The youngest of our group, a boy of about 14, shouts 'the image of an angel becomes an angel! Don't look in the eyes, look at the body', and we do, no one wants to be caught. Through the light, the tunnels, the confusion, I'd swear those angels are advancing upon us, as we scramble forward.

Suddenly we stumble through a door and there's straw beneath our feet. We're no longer on the Elysium, but have been thrown back in time to a Victorian fairground on the same spot. We meet Dolly, a one time companion of the Doctor's who holds the key to the Tardis, and tells us that we can still save him, we just have to send the Tardis back to him.

First we have to find it, it's in one of the fairground displays. Curtains draw back, and the Tardis is revealed. putting the key in the lock will send to back to the Doctor - but with it gone, how are we to return to our own time?

And we still have to escape the Angels, who have followed us. More running, through mirrored corridors, images of Angels in the mirrors, crashing, bumping, finally breaking out into another room, where we use the energy we've absorbed as time travellers to turn the Angels to stone, and get us back to our own time.

Finally, a thank you letter from the Doctor. We've helped him now, and he may need us again. One day.

Fantastic!

(For anyone utterly confused)