Add to this another couple
of little foibles Tom has —
jumping up a sheer rock wall and magically floating to the top, and falling in a
river but unable to get
out — and the game begins to feel a bit rough around the edges.
Some
of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort
of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall,
jumping into the East
River and then reappearing inside
of a barrel
of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile
of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn -
out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number
of glasses
of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort
of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series
of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.