"THE DOORWAY", is a collection of real and imagined stories that have been woven together in a physical narrative, exploring the nature of our physical inhabiting of 'closed' and 'open' spaces. While some of the material in the piece is loosely autobiographical, the rest has been drawn from images and impressions of life around us, some from fairy tales and folk songs, and some from entirely imaginary experiences. The narratives are communicated through bodily images, gestures, and sounds, with minimal spoken text.
The piece rather than looking at conveying the specifics of these stories, aims, instead to use them as provocations, to invoke associations or stories in the mind of the spectator - i.e. to find ways through which this personal material can end up seeming to allude to or to suggest other stories, drawn from the experience and lives of individuals watching.