In January this year I was invited by British actor and theatre director Stuart Cox to see a casting workshop in Havana, Cuba, for a new production of William Shakespeare’s Pericles (in Spanish). It’s a brave, exciting and sexy project that has been programmed for June 2016 and will be performed at the Casona en Linea in the old residential area of Vedado - amongst the beautiful and rotting mansions where the much written about sofas on balconies and clotheslines hang from windows onto makeshift poles hanging over the street. Vedado tremulous and defiant where only a single beggar roams and traffic amounts to largely old fifties Chevrolets passing Russian bicycles slightly faster than walking pace. Cox began his workshop with ancient circle dances from Macedonia and Greece which he had learnt at the Findhorn Foundation in the early eighties. It is something he always does. Intricate and simple foot weaving, hands held, both fusing and relaxing. These Cuban actors totally absorbed, totally committed and in their bodies from the outset. It is striking how expressive this is. The Caribbean way of strutting syntax and dancing thought and Cox intends to use it to best advantage whilst using the context...