EN ROUTE REVIEWS

MELBOURNE 2009

The most singular experience of the festival, however, was bettybooke’s en route, a lesson in falling in love with the city. Walking down graffiti-coloured laneways, discovering speciality music shops, garage sales and messages from strangers, one was never sure what was constructed and what incidental to the experience. Soon enough, the modern-day flaneur was shouting on the street, writing on the walls and even running in front of a tram, holding hands with a complete stranger. ...few performances manage to so completely tear through the bubble of reserve in which we spend most of our lives.
Jana Perkovic : ‘ReadThis Space’  RealTime Magazine (full article)


Cities are in some ways about isolation. (…) we shut down our perception of the countless faces and movements and surfaces around us. en route gently strips away those blinders in a way that is nothing less than revelatory.
John Bailey : Capital Idea  (full article)


My simple and overwhelming response is this: I feel blessed to have been able to participate in en route. Strange, and rare to have this response to a work, but very true. The very personal nature of the work has filled my mind and heart with thoughts and feelings of immense possibility. The brilliant and expansive that can be found in the quotidian and microcosmic. The boundless world found in the interior of consciousness, and the wonder and meditative energy that can be derived from walking the city. en route has inspired me to return once again to my long-lost pass-time of nothingness filled with fascination: the gentle joy of simply being une flâneuse.
Actual/ideal  (full article)


As you journey along, the cityscape becomes the set, the passersby the actors and the iPod provides the soundtrack for your very own three-dimensional, fully sensory living film or performance. I felt like an invisible observer in a world that had been designed just for me. … an exuberant, exciting experience.
Erin Hutching : Buzzcuts (full article)(audio review)

ADELAIDE 2010

As you listen to a wonderful selection of carefully chosen music you’ll find places you have never been (even if you’re local) and become immersed in a soundtrack that connects you to the places and people around you. ...This is a totally enthralling experience.
Final Word: Brilliant.
Michael Coghlan : Rip It Up magazine (full article)


You a solitary traveller drifting through some other reality as you walk the high roads and back lanes of the Adelaide CBD. Your companions are iPods, text messages, and the odd person who appears out of the crowd to hold your hand. En Route asks you and challenges you for your understanding of your place in the city.
Five Stars *****
Tim Lloyd : AdelaideNow (full article)


It throws you off-balance, and has you looking with different eyes at a city and yourself; without giving it away, there aren't many shows that would have you shouting from a multi-storey car park, or in my case buying a porcelain statuette in a record mart. ...En Route stood out as a true original.
Tim Cornwell : The Scotsman (full article)