Hephaestus Bill Buffery
Pandora Gill Nathanson
production created by Gill Nathanson and Bill Buffery
script prepared by Bill Buffery
sound by Tom Nordon
photography by Steve Tanner
We’re sorry but we really don’t want to say very much about the play before you see it. We hope that you’ll be intrigued – occasionally mystified – by what unfolds and we don’t want to give the game away or point you in one direction rather than another.
Will this suffice? We came across a note the other day that we’d made during very preliminary discussions about what the play might be: I suppose what interests us is the notion that things go very wrong if you don’t have an active imaginative life – but imagination can become hallucination which can be destructive.
A simple starting point – and not one that we were consciously pursuing throughout the creation of the piece. But it’s clear at the end of the process that some kind of testing of the role of imagination, fantasy and story has been leading us through the maze of the play.
We might not want to say much before you’ve seen the piece but we’ll happily discuss it afterwards. We take it for granted that theatre should be provoking questions – not necessarily providing answers. So though we’re not sure that we’ll be able to unravel the play, we’d certainly like to know what kind of connection it made with you. Because, despite all this seeming cloak-and-dagger stuff, we’re not trying to be obscure.
If there isn’t a talk-out after the performance and you can’t find us, then you can always contact us on multistory@hotmail.com.
Please enjoy.
