The houselights are on full and will remain so throughout. There is no set. The AUDIENCE are seated in the most democratic way possible, ideally in the round. It is vital that everyone can see and hear each other. Music is playing, some upbeat jazz – Cab Calloway, Cannonball Adderley, Hank Mobley or Duke Ellington perhaps. The NARRATOR is in the auditorium as the AUDIENCE enters, talking to people and giving them scraps of paper. As he does so, he explains that when he says a number he wants the person with the corresponding entry to shout it out.1

Eventually, when everyone is seated, the music fades and the NARRATOR begins.