Programme Note

Off The White
The white board was the highest of the three high diving boards in Walsall Gala Baths in the 1980s; they had been painted red white and blue in 1977 - Jubilee Year.

The white board was so high you needed to get permission to dive off it. And you had to dive - you were not allowed to jump. Sometimes though, it was hard to resist. Jumping was just more fun, just to get that feeling in your stomach.

Off The White
A theatrical blind date. A long correspondence by email and by phone. A few meals and meetings. The beginnings of a shared language. We have an interest in benches, an idea that they are gaps in time and space; pauses. We have friendship.

Off The White
We hold hands. And we jump.