DIRECTOR’S PROGRAMME NOTE
LET THE MOUNTAINS LEAD YOU TO LOVE
I spent my early childhood playing in the woods across the fields at the back of the house where I grew up, with my invisible friend Jackie. The summers were filled with damson trees and gooseberry bushes, rabbits, foxes and cows at the gate. We would head off to climb trees, paddle in the stream and flatten the long grass into little dwellings and we would play and chat for hours until it got dark.
As a teenager, when my parents had separated and we had moved away, I revisited the fields at the back of a house which was no longer mine, to sit on the style, try to conjure up Jackie and to cry.
As an adult I dream of this place; a universe where I can think freely, a space where I can share and shape things, a place to play. I call this place a theatre. Perhaps you are my new invisible friends. I think that I am trying to tell you something about love and loneliness, about transformation and change.
I hope that Let the Mountains Lead You to Love rekindles a memory in you that may have shaped who you are and what you have become. And I would like to dedicate this work to the men in our lives who allow us, as women, to be free.
Charlotte Vincent
February 2003
