Not Blue Heart . Its themes are time, fractured relationships and communication, or rather the lack of it. This is, says Brian, an occasion that will occur only once. The beginning of the play is repeated and repeated and repeated. Time, Churchill, reminds us, is taken up by doing the same thing over and over again, such as setting the table for a meal.
Time ends with death.
Brian mentions spontaneity and its role in confusing or confounding the best laid plans or expectations. Both author and director test their audience, requiring a capacity for philosophical thoughts about concepts to do with time and at least a tolerance for whimsy. Suffice it to say the The Children and an anthropomorphic creature nearly stole the show. By this time, most audience members will have cottoned on the fact that both halves of Blue Heart are a game, a theatre game. Except it's a con.