I was asked to write this post in the week following our workshop in Sligo. It is an impressionistic account, written before the dust has had a chance to settle. From Monday 12th to Sunday 18th May, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company generously shared with us their home at the Factory Performance Space in Sligo (which is also the Registered Office of the more nomadic Border Crossings). Each morning Sandra O’Malley (Cre-Actor, Border Crossings team) welcomed us through the doors and we had the run of the place for the day. There was uninterrupted sunshine for the seven days we spent exploring mythic narratives with settings in present day Greece and along the Mediterranean coast of Türkiye and Lebanon. We made much use of the theatre’s warm courtyard which has along one of its sides the studio of the sculptor Bettina Seitz. Through its large windows were visible various wax sculptures of the draped outlines of figures. In 2020, her ‘Underwave’ installation had featured such sculptures ...