Mike Min and Korby Sears played referees, progressively prodding the audience members - through non-verbal body language and whistle blows - into maintaining several playground activities that involved suspension, such as a ping pong game, blowing feathers, playing "London Bridge is Falling Down" on an old piano, keeping up a large beach ball, a game of four square, sucking helium from balloons pulled down from the ceiling and singing children's games that were written on them, blowing bubbles, slow tag, and finally, floating a large parachute above the crowd from platforms.

No audience members were spared. Absolutely everyone in attendence performed.

Ben Houge recorded the activity from three microphones suspended from the ceiling, which were inserted into three Boss RC-20 loopers and fed back into the PA. The RC-20 units record a loop of up to 5 minutes and 30 seconds, and play back the loop while overdubbing more material on top. Audience members, already giddy with their playground activities, would laugh and shout even more upon hearing their recently recorded ping pong hits, giggles, ref whistles, balloon pops, and bad piano playing.

The final audio result sounded like a playground containing 30 times more people than were actually in attendence.

Audience members who failed in their activities where whistled out of play by the refs and taken to the Suspension area, where they encountered the following sign and a stack of papers:

YOU HAVE FAILED. YOU ARE IN THE SUSPENSION TANK.

You must make a paper airplane and hit the target on Ben's back from 20 feet away.

Once you hit the target, you will be whistled back into play.

Ref Korby Sears called foul on Ref Mike Min once and hauled him to the Suspension Tank.

Mishaps? If you want to call them that. The beach ball hit a mic early in the performance, which established a great low end BOOM that repeated every 5 minutes. A pleasant little feedback loop that occured from a swinging mic actually sounded like a calliope, adding to the circus feel. Over-inflated balloons popped, elicting a loud whoop from the audience every time - which was fed back to them 5 minutes later, which in turn prompted another whoop, which was also recorded.

Somehow, nobody got hurt.

What did Seattle School learn from all this?

1) Adults really don't get to play enough.  We barely had to prod anyone to do anything. Audio giddiness was achieved at minute 4. People were beaming like monkeys on bourbon.

2) Energy begets energy. At minute 45, Seattle School left the playground and went to the bar for drinks, leaving the audience to their own devices. After chatting with the bartender, Seattle School went to a glass encased area to watch the audience, who continued with great gusto for another 25 minutes without any supervision or instruction. Even the house sound tech and facility manager had jumped into the fray. Several people even began improvising vigorous new games with each other, including a whirling dirvish-type frolic.

3) Damn - parachutes are awesome.

4) Lord of the Flies is not a work of fiction. It's real.