Metta likes...Silence

Our 2010 production of The Man With the Flower in His Mouth (which is touring in May, watch this space for dates) started with 5, the recent production of Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape in Town really pushed the boat out and started with almost 20! And my current (non-Metta) show - Barrie Keeffe's Gotcha at Riverside Studios (for Jagged Fence) starts with at least 3.

Metta likes...Intensity

This week I started rehearsals for a non-Metta show - a new production of Barrie Keeffe's Gotcha, which is on at Riverside Studios (from March 1st-19th). It's quite a departure for me as it's just a play, I don't mean JUST a play - but I mean there's no puppets, circus or video projection craziness. It's just four people in one room, over one day. And it's brilliant, and will hopefully be a searing and visceral production which packs a real emotional punch (it's only day three of rehearsals but as everyone knows I'm an optimist). But it got me thinking about intensity...

Metta likes... Detail

I love seeing really close attention to detail in a production.

Peter Gill

I've just seen Over Gardens Out by Peter Gill Riverside Studios, directed by Sam Brown, and it's a production that demonstrates what I like just perfectly. Sam and his designer, Annemarie Woods, have paid attention to the detail both in the visual world they are showing us - Annemarie's costumes and set were wonderfully in-period, managing to locate the production in time and place perfectly and yet in a beautifully simple and uncluttered way - and also into the action as well.