The Blue Man Group reminds you of the radioactive WMD man in the graphic novel Watchmen. Only these guys do not have an atomic symbol inked on their foreheads. Their show at the Hippodrome Theatre was a visual treat with an eclectic mix of mime, electronic tickertape messages, flying projectiles and a delirious finale.

With expressionless trademark blue faces, the wordless protagonists have a ball with every non-existent noumenal person or thing. The show was crazily multisensory, and if you want an eye for an eye, be sure you carry rotten tomatoes and eggs to get back in the Blue Man idiom. The faint hearted can just duck in their seats when the Blue Man Group starts to prowl the aisles.

The Blue Men deconstruct the arty world of mime, and at the Hippodrome Theatre, audiences were subject to percussive effects, splashing paint, spewing Twinkies and vomited marshmallows. Talk about ‘offending the audience’ mute Peter Handke style. While Peter Handke threw a pot of obscenities to shake up the audience in Alfred Jarry fashion, the Blue Man Group wordlessly assaults the audience.

Their performance packed a punch and the Blue Man Group went about their multisensory bonanza, with the feckless glee of brash teens. The communal feeling of delirium explodes in your face in an out of the planet experience. The lucky few who managed tickets sunk into the extravaganza mood that knocks the living daylights out of most people.

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