How did you find the process of writing your first play? Do you feel it will influence your direction? In fact, Every Breath is not my first play. I wrote several plays at high school and the start of my university studies, but then I buried these urges under my activity as a director. I have recently begun writing for the stage again. Every Breath is the second of a clutch of plays from the last few years. In 2010, I spent the European summer in Hamburg where my girlfriend Magga had a choreographic residency at Kampnagel (a theatre specialising in contemporary performance.) I had given myself a rare and well-earned break from rehearsal, and was preparing several upcoming productions -- two behemoths: King Lear for the National Theatre of Iceland plus Return of Ulysses for the ENO/Young Vic in London. One afternoon, I put the directing preparations aside and began to write what would become my first play since those earlier efforts. I didn't set out to write a play. I'd been working on a volume of poetry and perhaps that occupation helped pry open a long-bolted door in my imagination. The writing came upon me like a fever, and I wrote two plays in quick succession. The first is Like a Sun , a sprawling epic about an alpha male and the collapse of his world. Before that play had cooled, I began a second play: Every Breath . I wanted to write something more deliberately condensed and