Awake on the Allen

Having had a warm breakfast Simon Clarke and Pete Graham have thrived on their night on the river.

They had had an impromptu gathering of friends and passers-by. By one they were alone again. By two they were asleep. Though a giant rat came and sat on a wall for some time just watching them. Simon continues on the connection between dreams and theatre-in-the-round:

"A lot of the nature of 'the round' is about defragmenting and making things unified. Dreams are similar. You could think of them as a pipeline between our organised conscious thought and the myriad fragments of deep thought."

"To know and understand that is an important way of bringing the two sides together. It's at a cross roads, like we are here with the river flowing underneath and the everyday pavement above. The two things meet and suddenly there are new possibilities."

He's interrupted whilst a duck and her young brood scuttle by, keeping close to the weeds at the river bank.