You're really settling into the space now, it's really, really great to see
and you're just opening up the performances
[loud background noise drowning out voice] so...I just want to tidy up a couple of things
[loud background noise drowning out voice]
cheesecake.
cheesecake? [laughter]
Did you say cheesecake?
I'm that good at lip-reading! [laughter]
'cos that's not an easy word to lip-read it's all in the back.
and if you have never...'cos he's going 'happy amateurs I salute you!'
I normally would I was just trying to sort out...
I know, I know. But also in Cambridge it's... you've really got to...
it's a bit understated?
It's a bit understated.
Ok.
it's...it's a bit too considered. And it's got to be...
Don't say considered!
It's a bit too considered.
I said too considered, I didn't say considered by itself.
You've just...but you've just to really ratch it out there.
And when you're in 'it was loving, it was touching, it was genuine...'
and you're doing that...
keep the energy..
bring the energy that's there. And then it's boom.
As Artistic Director of Graeae
you can imagine just how I excited I am that Graeae's finally at the National Theatre!
I never thought it would happen really. It's just amazing and it feels...
it's right. It's just right that we are here.
'He asked if I wanted to hold it. I think the nurse called it "it" by accident".
' "it" was a girl! '
'I don't hold her.'
'And nor did he.'
Anybody with any access requirement, be that they are blind, that they are deaf,
that they have mobility issues, should be able to come and see a Graeae show
ANY Graeae show.
To be at the National is something really special
and to be part of Graeae's first show at the National feels like a massive honour
that I consider Graeae the national disabled theatre of England
and to be here when Graeae finally is part of the National Theatre
as it should have been for a very long time
is something special.
My whole kind of attitude as an artist is that everybody's different
and everybody's wonderful for what they are
so that's very much the concept of Graeae.
They're all wonderful people and I'm just happy to be involved with them.
This is not JUST for Graeae, it's for all the deaf and disabled artists that are out there
saying 'come on, this is a national stage, and it's yours.'
'It's ours and it's yours. It's all of ours.'
[imposing music and a baby's laugh].