
“The separation between us (the audience) and them (the performers) is so ghostly it may as well be only a suggestion. Our belief that it exists is the only thing that gives it any foothold. We are in dialogue (we as in us, we as in them) without ever saying a word. Perhaps… who knows is, from its commencement until its end, an invitation into that conversation. What remains when the sand runs out is a distinct awareness that only two performers who take their craft so seriously, who have devoted years of study to its development, could give such an unserious, unstudied air to the friction between a performance so seemingly unserious with the seriousness of its own undercurrent. It is apparent to me that any instinct and trust—in oneself, in the other performer, in the audience—as strong as that embodied by Rosie and Jonathan is a genuinely serious thing, a life’s undertaking. It is to surrender, over and over and over. And then over again.” – Claire Summer for Performance Review