Back from Obama Land

So I am back 3 days now and I think have adjusted to the heat although my Nordic genes find the summer time altogether challenging! I am excited by Massive Company's year..we have so much on and so much interest in our work and the way we make it, it is very heartening to feel you are offering something unique and something which people are looking forward to seeing or experiencing. This recession is troubling of course but I do feel we as artists are well equipped to deal with it...never having known job "security" and all that brings...so we are well conditioned to the careful ways needed to handle these times. I do feel that whatever comes our way we will "weather" it even if it means adjusting programmes and suchlike...the fact that our tutoring and workshops are in such high demand will mean we will survive no matter what. I love the Land of Obama (as a friend and I decided to now call the USA) ...I love their unabashedness to tell you how charming you are and that they love the way you talk. I love that men would let me know how cute they thought I was and ask me straight out for a date...how bloody refreshing is that!! I love that they love our work and want more of it. But I do love coming home and all that that means at a deep deep level, never really able to be articulated, to me. I hope I may keep having the opportunity to traverse both places as I do...that is a wonderful thing. But for now it is focus on our tour of WHERO'S, our workshops, our next new show HAVOC IN THE GARDEN and our re-working of THE GIRLS SHOW....onwards, onwards and onwards...........