This was Peripeteia's last outing to date as a company. It's important to highlight that while I did gather the cast and find the location (this time the beautiful, fadingly glorious conservatory of the Birdcage Tavern, once the Rob Roy Hotel, built in 1885), the directing reins were most definitely in the hands of Daniel Mainwaring, and he led us through a painstakingly elegant and well-researched and really detailed process. Working on Shakespeare, we had tried to look for  Shakespearean ways of working - with Chekhov, we decided to dive right into Stanislavski, and also began exploring clowning. I helmed the production side of things, but this too was in every way a team effort with Laurel, Brooke, Trygve and Jacob, and huge help from the rest of the company as well as stalwart supporter Nisha Madhan.

We rehearsed through the winter, and brought a big pot and hob into rehearsal so it was a different person's job to make the soup for lunch every day. The audience sat in the round and all through the space, the centre of which had a giant dry fountain. I found a set of four puzzles in a charity shop, each depicting the same house and garden in four different seasons, which we left on tables with other bits of bric-a-brac . Brooke convinced a flower shop to give us what they couldn't sell every few days, so the whole space was filled with just-about-to-die flowers.