Joe Power - The Man Who Sees Dead People

Here was the biggest audience yet. Not surprising, given how Joe Power works. Loss is universal, and so is the desire to overcome it.A heartbeat soundtrack on entry. Just to remind us of how thin is the veil? How close we are to the loss of life? Then he arrives, and it is surprising how untheatrical Joe Power is - and how low the emotional temperature remains.After saying what he will do, Power throws out some questions. Anyone here from Australia? A blank. Anyone - in the name of M...dead in the spirit world? A woman agrees she has a dad in the spirit world. Surprise. But no one has ever strangled anyone, no matter how much Power emphasises this. Five minutes later the woman recalls she has a relative named M.. but it’s too late to use this now...Anyone connected to a Paul? Surprise, someone is. Having got an audience member to reveal some personal details, Power just says that the relative wants them to know that they are OK on the other side and ‘Thank you for talking with me’. He moves on. One woman was asked ‘if there was a doctor?’ ‘I’m sorry, I’d need more than that’, she said. ‘I’m not that good, love’, replies Power. Well, he said it.Then follows aura readings. ‘I’m pretty good at relationships, I think’. ‘You have a fine blue aura, and you will be successful in what you do’. Right, that seems insightful. What was interesting was how pleased the audience seemed to be with so little. I had thought that I might feel a tingle up my spine. That something might happen to make me doubt my rationalism. But nothing. It was really all pretty basic and boring.Nothing happened here to make me think any connections had been made. There were far too may ‘no’s when people were asked questions. What I believe impossible still appears impossible. People will be reassured by the experience, here, but only if they are very willing to be reassured.Those who wish to seek solace in the supernatural are free to - but I was quite uninspired and bored.