Take A Seat review

Regardless of who or what you believe in, or your outlook on life, one thing is an absolute: that no one is certain what happens to us when we die. Is there blackness and stillness or do we face judgement on how we've led our lives and led to heaven or hell? In Kieran Gould-Dowen's Take A Seat a group of people who've all recently died meet up in purgatory as they wait for their number to be called.

This is a remount of Gould-Dowen's first season of the show in 2017. While there were problems with the pacing and character development initially, Gould-Dowen has made considerable changes with the current incarnation that gives the characters more time to grow and create more affecting stories for them. The most noticeable change is its duration - moving from a 60 minute one-act play to a two hour two-act play - and the addition of several new characters.