Drama is a relationship. The relationship is ongoing. Theatre is an act of devotion in the relationship. I want to believe that in theatre the act of drama is its own reward. I want to believe the theatre, when one devotes oneself to it, extends beyond the boundaries of performance.I want to believe theatre values inquiry over conclusion. To attempt to be conclusive is to attempt to make performance that is, in effect, a statement. Attempting to make a statement with performance undermines the idea that theatre is an act of relationship. These words are a statement and they are not theatre.

The theatre we imagine is not highly plotted, but certainly is elaborately structured ... plot, character, setting and theme logic are potential paralysis ... related or corresponding event, recurring image and action are the essential substance of meaningful density ... repetition is a pattern of theatre and also of dream and neurosis ... a condition ... without tradition, without belief the process is that of filling or emptying ... our theatre is breakdown or breakthrough work ... the self is the obstacle ... the only consolation & grace of work is to obliterate or to encompass ... inner aspects of action.

Our theatre starts with the whole body in space listening to the bones and singing the sound to develop a capacity of open, vigilant awareness. Moves to playing with & devising materials in improvisational time to experience and discover personal impulses of place/practise/action. Finally to encounter ... "Now what?"

One aim is to retrieve an aliveness possessed by individuals, discover in dancingness & singingness impulses and feed this as an encounter back to the source from which they came. As a result of this process, people might be able to source play even as they unveil & reveal their autonomy.

The body is, yet not only, movement. In work there is the emptiness called space ... or is it heart or rigor? In play the space parts then moves in to fill where the body's been ... or is it absence that parts and fills or energy? We have deeply personal reasons for moving, working and playing. Yet always we partner to hold the space and to keep things whole. Memory is on our side as long as we observe, listen, encounter and reveal in dancingness.

“It is about finding a true sense of your path in the theatre and in life and finding where it links. The only way it makes sense to me in any literal way is through the analogy of the waves of the ocean hitting the beaches of the earth. I see that theatre and art and the way of the actor is the ocean, a vast swell of the human spirit, whose full potential can never quite be tapped (though we strive to do so) and the earth represents our human, mundane life, it represents the body we are stuck to the ground with and it is when they meet that we are allowed to move, breathe, create, and feel. Is that a start to an understanding of the way of the actor?" (from a student response to the process)