Breaking the fourth wall is a bold move for any show – stage or screen – to make, and most who use that method are cagey about it. Auditorium doesn’t dip its toe in the water, it dives in holding a bag of air and a rock.
It starts out as a sort of sitcom with sharp but not especially funny writing, then one character discovers a portal into the audience. After a minor existential crisis which sucks in the rest of the cast, this portal becomes the focal point of the whole story.
As people on our side can see into their world but not vice-versa, the characters very quickly get their knickers in a twist since they were all deceiving each other and now the wheels are coming off the wagon. The labyrinthine who-knows-what-about-whom situation is ambitious, there are dozens of little exchanges which keep everything in flux, and keeping the audience from getting muddled is a remarkable achievement.
Clearly that wasn’t enough of a challenge for this writer, so several critical parts of the plot depend on audience interaction. The audience, of course, can’t be trusted to cooperate. The actors have to think on their feet a few times. Fair play, they hold it all together. All in all, this is one of the fresher offerings around.
4/5 
Bernie Greenwood
