Dave Drayton, Journalist

“It’s a different world, the dance world, they spend an hour every morning learning some form of dance or exercise, as opposed to us actors who just turn up!”

"Well, he’s dead, man, even physically, he can’t get up to swing a punch at me."

“It’s fascinating. We’re investigating it and experimenting with it at the same time so it’s not as straightforward as just interpreting a script; the visual parts have to be dramaturgically investigated as well.”

“It’s fascinating; you don’t lose the time with the actors anyway, because those moments with the actors are still connected to the drama and connected to the play. So it’s fabulously liberating.”

"We kind of like to share scary stories, it evokes people’s own stories and people share stories with each other."

"This piece is much more psychological and about variance; in physicality, but also in emotional variance as well."

"It poses lots of questions, it doesn’t try to answer them. It doesn’t give you an answer, you know, ‘If you play violent video games you’ll be a bad person’... it doesn’t give you an easy answer."

“Look at Game Of Thrones or Mad Men; these are not likeable people, but they’re fascinating.”

The Pork Stilleto director Iain Sinclair tells Dave Drayton why any dramatist worth their salt should be expecting a knock on the door from the cops.

"Strong women tend to be a feature, and it could be to do with the fact that Queen Elizabeth herself was such a commanding figure, and the figurehead of the whole country, and such an outstanding personality that I think plays."