On Shared Experience:

The essence of theatre is paring down to the essentials of what you actually need:  cutting it back until you discover what you need, and maybe that one thing serves many different functions, which is theatrical in itself.  The visual side springs out of those essentials, which is similar what is said about refining down to the essence of performance.

30 May 1995

Interview with Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod

by Paul Heritage at The Coliseum, London

in Contact with the Gods?  Directors Talk Theatre (which I NEED to read already!)

Shared Experience:

 Throughout the years, the company has always remained true to the core philosophy that each and every performance is a 'shared experience' between actor and audience and that each production is a genuinely collaborative effort.  In the ego-ridden world of theatre, Meckler and Teales's shared vision and their ability, when the occasion and need arises, to co-direct, is a rarity.  This sense of democracy extends to every aspect of the production.