Silence

Odin is not a theatre, but a refurbished long farmbuilding which used to house cows and pigs. Great rooms of gleaming wood floors, with high ceilings and wide doors which open to the air, are the performing spaces. Tiny rooms, each with a sky-window and white monastery walls, are the offices & living spaces.

It is a building of peace. It is silent.

Except for the refrigerators, servers, and hot water pipes in the kitchen, all the other rooms have the utter silence of the countryside. Of the monastery.

It is as more silent than my house, even, and I keep my heaters off for greater quiet. In my house, I can always hear the fridge. Here -- nothing. It is as still as the fields around.

When a great peace is laid upon the spirit, a great peace is laid upon the work.