Space and time and action

The time spent away from a project can either invigorate or destroy it. Objectivity is everything to the development of a work.

Right now we are spending five or six days away from the project and then on the seventh - which happens to be the Thursdays we are meeting and constructing. The discipline of time out of the room is interesting.

Both Stephen and I are eager to get back in there. We have ideas during the week and we have notions to explore, but the limitations of hours in any given Thursday means that we have to focus quite in order make anything that is beautiful and quick. (long sentence).

The point is - this process - it's good.

It means that the making of the work is methodical, special and worthwhile. Which natuarlly brings me to using football as an analogy.

During the season - our football teams play once a week. We enjoy this because we can focus on the game completely. It becomes a special time. In Europe football teams play in a variety of competitions at once and so they play several times a week. The great thing is that you can see the games regularly and more frequently, but the thrill can never be the same. It's a routine, rather than a ritual. What HWY has right now is a ritual. Our process is thinking - meeting and creating. Listening back and re-constructing or re-thinking. This routine, this ritual - this is the right way to make this piece. And if it's not well - what can I say? It feels like it is right for us, right now. Space and time and action. This is what theatre should be.