The connection to space

What is exciting about the new discoveries that we make through devising process is that once again our imaginations are propelled. These discoveries, that effectively make the material more solid and present to us begin to generate new directions for our thoughts about the developing piece.
What we have set out to do this weekend has been an attempt to define the performance space and our dynamic with the audience. As in the previous process, we realised that it was necessary to define the metaphor of this space more clearly to ourselves. Once we have done this, the theatrical space provides us with an anchor for the material. It has been as if, until this moment, the material has 'floated' in our heads, and has therefore been difficult to pin down or hold on to. We have both commented upon difficult it is to grasp this piece, it has seemed to evade us and lack substance.
The definition of the space as a 'secret theatre', where we go to re-discover our secret dreams, places us in a different relationship to the material. We realise that this space has a gravitational pull, the material is pulled into it and we can begin to see it more clearly in this fictional world we have now created. Our relationship to the material changes when we ask why we would come to this place, why do we bring this material here. We become more present in this process and this changes the dynamic between us and the fictional characters that we are enacting, it has become less about our mothers. The focus shifts to us when we ask why we would need to go to this place. This provides us with the opportunity to position ourselves in relation to our material, and connections, that have probably been there all along, now begin to trigger at a pace. We become inspired and creative thinking begins to surge, as we make connections that until this moment had not been available to us.