AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FLYING IN THE DARK/2011
Wakefield
I had a huge smile as I left - for storytelling of that caliber will undoubtedly grow its audience.
I love this show. I laughed, I cried and was engaged throughout. Great stories and a captivating teller.
A remarkable performance by a wonderful, talented lady. Her stories of a blind person in a seeing world were touching and mesmerizing.
An amazing night! Kim has a talent for capturing the ups and downs of disability with warmth and humour.
Loved the second half even more than the first; a powerful combination of images, stories and honesty.
This was very nice and really touched me as I have a special needs son. Hearing a story like Kim’s gives me hope for him.
Really great. I liked being in the dark. Loved the contrast between first and second half.
Wonderful! Many thanks for all your efforts - I am inspired by Kim’s story. Thank-you .
Great intimate venue. Great storytelling.
This was the first storytelling show that I have attended and I was pleasantly surprised! I loved this thought provoking show, the venue was warm and intimate. I am looking forward to attending other shows of this kind. Thanks for a great show.
I loved your one women show! You were amazing, so good, funny, full of emotion. So much to remember I loved the start with all of us in the dark and ending in the dark.I was very impressed and totally enjoyed it.
An amazing show in Wakefield!!! I applaud your honesty. I can assure you it had a strong effect on all of us in the audience. I felt this honesty worked to emphasize the universality of the many life lessons you presented to us that evening. This thought is embodied in my favourite line of the show: "...there are no lines." I am an artist who tends to not paint according to what is dictated as the prescribed norm and so, it had meaning for me literally but also figuratively. I also tend to be someone who thinks for myself first before considering following the so-called "rules". I have disabilities of a different nature, your lessons and attitude toward so-called disability applies across the board and even beyond. That is, it applies to life lessons in general. Your stories are an example of the importance and significance of recognizing and cultivating strengths such as self-confidence, determination, perseverance, excellence, and so many more.
Having the lights out at the beginning and end of the show made all the sense in the world. It allowed the audience a moment of understanding (on a relative scale, of course but symbolically too). I found your words painted a more visible picture in my mind, in the dark. It drew me closer to the words and the act of listening and hearing. Having the lights off in the beginning and at the end, acted as a sort of parenthesis, within which your story was held. It works as a beautiful metaphor for the gift of your blindness, which to me was revealed in your stories to be a special sight, an insight that those who do not dare to draw outside the lines never get to see.
That was a wonderful journey you took us on last night. Especially the second part. The stories of your childhood were magical and funny, as they always are, but in the second half you showed your adult self, the struggles that I share with you and the courage that you have and that I have make us equals. I was able to stop thinking of you as "the remarkable blind woman" and start learning skills from a remarkable, but at times insecure just-like-me woman. I didn't laugh aloud when you told the story of the naked old man, I was mortified as you must have been. My having ‘working eyes' doesn't stop me from missing just as many clues as you did that day, I try to pay attention as much as possible to my life as it is happening and I fall down on the job all the time. Your storytelling skills shone as you brought themes and images from earlier in the evening back into the peaceful self-accepting ending.
Perth
Absolutely amazing! Very courageous and compelling. Brought tears to my eyes and made me laugh. You certainly run the gamut.
Flying in the Dark was wonderful. I brought a friend who knows nothing about storytelling and she loved it. We both thoroughly enjoyed it and the time flew by - not a dull minute. A night of complete entertainment, with humour and honesty and good old-fashioned storytelling.
Thank-you Kim for that wonderful, funny, thoughtful profound and totally entertaining show. Thank-you Jennifer and Jan for making this event possible.
Wonderful!
It was a great experience. As a child I listened to stories like this. It was funny, heart warming and very entertaining. I’m so glad my neighbour needed someone to accompany her tonight.
Truly enjoyable adult storytelling.
A very moving performance, exceptionally honest. Kim brought us into her world, not interpreting the world for us but inviting us to see, feel, hear smell through her senses.
I enjoyed her show so much. I thought dimming the lights to dark at the start and finish was very affective - put me straight into Kim's world from the word go. She is a great storyteller - gentle and vulnerable one moment then funny and raging the next. She had me gripped from the first moment. Story telling is such a lost art - who knew it was alive and well in Ontario until you two came along? And, do you know what? It's just the same as being a child and listening with that tremendous focus, totally enchanted, totally in thrall, hearing nothing else, knowing nothing else. That's such a gift for the adult me.
When the lights dimmed and faded away, and your voice came out of the darkness as a small child, full of wonder and joie de vivre, I was enchanted, and I am pretty sure the rest of the audience was too. You have the ability to take us into your world and experience it in a small way as you do. The story came across as honest and compelling.
Where to start – A magical storyteller, warm, engaging, a laugh made in heaven, an important story told in a vivid, intimate, loving way - truly a gift to an audience. The venue – intimate, comfortable, great acoustics - we could not have asked for a more soul-satisfying and entertaining evening. There is real magic in the relationship between storyteller and audience – no books, no music, no props to get in the way – just her, us and an amazing story. Thank-you for bringing us this gift .
Kim Kilpatrick's performance last Saturday in Perth was truly entrancing. I vividly felt her experience of life as a blind person and, more importantly, as a person. Her spirit really shone through and I got the sense that creating the show was an important experience in her life as well.Truly remarkable. Something I won't forget for a long time.I would also like to say to you, Jan and Jennifer, that you are doing really good work, following a particular creative vision that is producing fantastic results. How are we so lucky to have you in this area?