ABSTRACT
Directing one performance at a time is difficult enough, but trying to devote equal amounts of time and energy to the creative process of two different performances was a new challenge for me. The primary challenge, as someone who has a strong aesthetic affinity for Immersive Theatre, lay in ensuring that I would not, however inadvertently, make one piece ‘stronger’ than the other. Going into the process of creating two performances then involved a new kind of discipline in my way of working: where every choice that I made in one piece was placed in conversation with the manifestation of that strategy in the other performance. Making sure that the characterization was done in a similar fashion. Making sure that the scripts were making the ‘same points’. Making sure that both performances also honoured the original text.
