I want to watch, and to help make, theatre that intrigues, inspires and surprises. I want to work as part of a team of people who each do something unique and marvellous. I want set, costume and performance to interlock and overlap, each informing and enhancing the other. Through analysing, detecting, digging, divining or occasionally inventing from scratch, I want to pinpoint what I, my co-workers, and an audience recognise as something true. I like layers, complications and contradictions, sparseness and spectacle, Norse myths, comic books and the lady with the dancing dog at Crufts. I want to make work that's brave, funny, sad, detailed and unexpected. Be it in awe, delight or horror, I want people to sit forward in their seats and say 'oooooh'…