Responding to a site

Samuel Collings | Photograph William Reynolds

So our latest production - Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth - takes place within a café. I mean not only is the action (such as it is) set in a café but we're also staging it in one - the beautiful and intimate (recently opened) London Particular on the New Cross Road. And in fact this is our second foray into site responsiveness this year (I won't dare to call it site-specific because for the purists out there site-specific is itself a very 'specific' term) after our commission from the V&A museum to create a performance (which became for us a bit of an experiment in dance theatre) in one of their Spiral Booths.

Metta likes... Production values

This week, we like high production values.

Well, we always like high production values, but lets think a little about what that means. What we often mean is a slick and highly polished production - the sort of thing that looks expensive to achieve, the kind of professionalism you expect to see at the National or in the West End for example, but is that the only meaning?