Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.

Last season was just scratching the surface of where we need to be. I've done a 180 with this program and I've been really working with the girls at being more aggressive on the court.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.