When I'm telling stories about the work I am asked to do all the funniest stories are about the strange descriptions I am given. "Could you just hum for a few seconds under the narration..." or "can you sing like an scared mouse", or "can you produce a sound that could be mistaken for melancholy but is actually a sign of life". One of the hardest things we do as directors or theatre-makers is explain to other creative people what we want. We use words that we think are des