ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that our craft was acquired through training informed and shaped by time and friendship, and that this made a ‘collective intimacy’ possible. She proposes that this ‘collective intimacy’ constitutes one of the particularities of the company’s performance style. The ‘collective intimacy’ allows a different form of knowledge, one that extends beyond the distinction between individual and collective, self and other. The author spent more time working with Little Bulb Theatre than with any other company; in this respect, her training is dependent on the very length of that time spent together. But the fact that friendship is one of the bedrocks of the company suggests that this training didn’t solely happen because we spent a long time together: it happened because this time is bound by and constructed through friendship and a specific type of intimacy.
