The most surprising performance I've ever seen in a toilet. Sailing On, part of the Whitley Arts Festival, was put on in the ladies toilets at Reading's Abbey School. Given the calibre of the place, the venue is, of course, clean and fragrant. The theme is suicide by drowning and the three performers from the Shady Jane company bring together real life and fictional characters to tell the story they devised. Following their own watery deaths, the writer Virginia Woolf and Shakespeare's Ophelia have taken up residence in the toilets, where they observe the habits of its patrons. One young woman in particular, Romola, has caught their attention and by "borrowing" some of her personal items they have worked out that she has a dark secret from her childhood. Making the most of the venue, the characters use lots of water and the cubicles, sinks, mirrors, pebbles and video to re-enact the final moments of Romola's mother's life, forcing Romola to come to terms with her past. Virginia and Ophelia also re-enact their own deaths in a melodramatic and somewhat violent way. The performances are intimate - in such a small space and with standing room only you can't avoid getting caught up in the action. With an audience capacity of 12 - there were six people when I went - you even get a chance to discuss the play afterwards with the three performers, who are left with some cleaning up to do. Flush with success from the Total Theatre Awards they plan to tackle the life of Marilyn Monroe next.