I was talking to a friend tonight about theatre – specifically about the directing workshop that’s coming up in a month.

I was explaining the general format and that I would be showing the work the attendees would be doing using the next show I want to direct (Cyrano) as the example.

We were talking about the idea of figuring out what makes it your play and the concept of the elevator pitch, as well as how you bring those ideas out to give the overall flavour & theme.

Then I had one of the “bolt from the blue” moments that are what I love as a director.

“Love isn’t what it looks like,” I said to her, with this giant smile on my face.  “That’s what Cyrano is – it’s three people who all think they know what love will be and what it must be – and they aren’t quite what they’ve been portrayed as.”

Love isn’t what it looks like – that’s where this is going.

I suspect that this doesn’t make a lot of sense to anyone else yet, but I promise, it will.