Stories and Other Things

We're in the 2nd week of rehearsals for a revival of our show The Forest, and I've been thinking a lot about how the piece works, and why we made it the way we did.  It's a piece in which we tried to recreate the sensations and rhythms and feelings of being in a forest - to do with play, fear, light, space, texture, movement - and we hang this loosely around a visual structure: a simple journey while day turns to night.  It's pretty abstract!  

It has always felt important to us to resist the lure of storytelling and character in all our work, and somehow especially in our work for children, and to celebrate the importance of the poetic, the inexplicable and the strange.  

I'm looking forward to experiencing the piece again with audiences, to see what they make of this inexplicable thing we've made.

You can find out more about the project and the process here.