stand up in the audience in the middle show, yell about shaving monkeys, put on a funny hat and get on the stage. We want to make shows that literally blow someone's mind leaving them gibbering in the audience after the show. We want to make work that shows people things they've never seen before on stage." Is there a message your trying to convey through Doku Rai? In the show we started looking at a whole range of things. One of them was 'what does it mean when we talk about a cross-cultural collaboration?' You know, you're bringing artists from two very different worlds together, what does that mean? How do you negotiate who does what, who's ideas get taken up, who's voices are heard? So we started collecting stories from all the artists, from the Australia guys, from the Timorese guys. Just whatever stories they had, of there childhood, of adolescents. Then we starting weaving them in and finding parts of the stories that were a little like myths. You know how you can find stories from you past and it's a bit like a fable, or a bit make believe?  We found these parts of the stories and began weaving them all together to make this work, and that was the process of how it was made. What was it like creating a production on a remote island in an abandoned colonial hotel? Pretty crazy, I mean, it was kind of like camping, except we had to