WHEN I first read about Fuel: Fiction it's safe to say I was intrigued.

When you read: 'You will fall asleep and you will dream. But you won’t be alone in your dream; everyone else will be there with you. And you will have a chaperone who knows the landscape and will attend to you. So nothing can go wrong...unless...no...just close your eyes' it's hard not to want to find out exactly what this show is all about.

Well, after sitting in complete darkness at Malvern Theatres for an hour listening through headphones to people talking, whispering, arguing, and to the various other sound effects created I still wasn't sure what it was all about. But I enjoyed it.

It's not often you get to be in complete darkness. When I go to bed I can always see a street light outside, so to be in a room so dark that I could not see my hand in front of my face was relaxing and quite liberating.

At the start of the show you are told that half of the people in the room are actors. One such actor takes to the stage and reads a speech, before they are slowly faded out in to darkness.

This is exciting and unusual, and soon after you hear voices through the headphones, some appear to be close while others are far away and this is very effectively done. You are particularly guided through this 'dreamworld' by a woman, who at times seemingly whispers so close to your ear that it made me shiver.

I was expecting the show to be more unnerving, but just because I didn't experience this it doesn't mean others didn't - one woman walked out after ten minutes.

You are guided through the dreamland, which mostly takes place in a hotel. Various things happen, but most of the time I was sat there thinking 'what is going on?' which made it hard for me to really get in to it.

I was left disappointed when the lights came up at the end as the end came so abruptly and not much of a conclusion seemed to be reached.

But I realised I enjoyed the experience more after reflecting on it and hearing a talk from Fiction writer, Glen Neath.

He said that Fiction was set out like a dream, disjointed and strange, and it certainly was.

While you too may be left wondering what exactly just happened, I do think the show is worth seeing purely for the experience, as it's something I've never done before and would do again.