What if we define values, principles, and methodologies, resisting the pressure to define outcomes? What if we focus on what drives us and on how we want to live and work together, but leave the imagination open to the concrete shapes our collaboration can take?
Eddie Redmayne has gouged out his own eyes on the steps of the National Theatre after having come under fire from disability activists protesting his plans to play Lear. His long-anticipated return to the stage looks set to break box office records. Kevin Spacey makes dazzling Old Vic comeback starring in play about his own downfall.
Wish-full thinking. It contains a wish, a hope, a possibility, a thought experiment, a fantasy, a “what if…”, the potential of the performance to enact change – political or social change, maybe, or a change in the energy of the room, or a psychological change, momentary or lasting, in the spectator.
This city is being made and headed for - from this town that has been arguing with me, it will get something.
The curtain opens on the cold, wintry Atlantic Ocean.
It is possible to communicate with the dead. It is possible to communicate with the dead via psychic ritual with gnomes.
Letters from the ocean, messages without bottles, directed to you.