Prior to performance, audience members collect, with the program, a slip of paper and a pen. The paper bears the age-old question: “If you could be any animal you wanted, what would it be?”

The audience write down their names and choices. The ushers gather the responses and relay these to the actors in the green room.

The actors take the stage, which is adorned with the most advanced medical equipment available. Then the actors (in reality, a team of surgeons at the top of their respective fields) begin the laborious process of transforming the members of the audience into their animals of choice.

All props are sterilized, and patients are allowed to recuperate in nearby facilities. As there can be no predicting the choices the audience will make, a wide range of specialists stand by. Should any protest and wish to leave, ushers remind them that the world has changed. That the performance has already begun.