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Making a Gecko show is an extremely difficult process and its difficult to say which aspect
of it is more difficult. It truly is an organic process that requires care on every single
level. Because you're building up all elements of the show at the same time you can't really
take you eye of any one aspect. You can lessen the importance of one thing for another. For
the technical stuff to be right one has to work endlessly - again and again and again
- on the functionality of a show. Moving a screen at exactly the time that you're moving
a person and a chair and a table and a light. There is a painstaking quality to that. It
instantly moves out of the realm of being technical and becomes poetic. Those functional
things drift into the realm of poetry. The things that you imagine to be poetic like
some of the movement become very technical because you want them to have a precision
to them - and if you don't want them to have precision you have to work very hard for them
not to have precision. There is not a great deal - there is nothing that is easy, thats
absolutely for sure. I guess the most difficult thing is the composition of everything, because
having one singular idea is great and you can really work up that singular idea. Having
a bunch of them is fantastic. Actually sitting them together - bringing all those ideas together
and actually having a whole meaning and sense that there is a composition to is probably
the thing that takes the longest and therefore is the most difficult. If there was one aspect
that I could talk about and say 'that was particularly difficult', I would say it is
the poetic moments of the show that are very transformative and have personal meaning for
each and every member of the audience. When you find those, usually quite metaphorical
ideas, I always have a feeling that this is going to be something that is going to be
broadly interpreted and if it sits within the show that those things are really gold
for the show. Thinking about the puppets is one way of thinking about that. You tend to...
with a puppet you tend to put... you tend to either take the puppet in and it becomes
a very emotionally personal thing about you as a child or you become very conceptual about
it and it become something that has a meaning to do with the word or to do with innocence,
and beyond. Thats one example of how a transformative idea can work.